Opposition MPs were strongly against the composition of the Council, and walked out of the parliament hall in protest.
A total of 77 deputies voted for the five-member Council, and one deputy abstained.
The chairman of the Council is Gaspar Gacina, who was an assistant to the Croatian Telecom (HT) managing board chairman until this February. The vice-chairman of the Council is Juraj Muzina, an HT manager until recently, and Miljenko Krivsek, a former HT employee. The remaining two members of the Council are Ante Dodig and Radovan Centner.
The opposition slammed the government's nominations because three out of the five members worked in the HT until recently, which they said was an obvious example of conflict of interest considering the fact that the council will soon have to elect the third national mobile telephone operator.
During a heated debate before the vote, opposition MPs accused the government of trying to maintain the duopoly in mobile telephony (with the HT and VIP as the only companies) and prevent the arrival of the third operator on the domestic market.
Earlier in the day, the Sabor endorsed the new maritime code in the first reading.
The parliament turned down by a majority vote the opposition Libra party's motion for the annulment of mandatory military service and its draft act on changes to the existing Defence Law.
The parliament adopted changes to the Law on Service in the Armed Forces which define criteria for awarding the so-called presidential pension to army officers.
Amendments to the Family Law were adopted postponing the transfer of family disputes from social welfare centres to family courts until 2006.
The parliament also adopted a law banning the use, storage, production and transportation of land mines. Thus, Croatia fulfills the last commitment under the international convention on land mines ban which it signed in 1998.
The Sabor ratified the Budapest Convention on the Contract for the Carriage of Goods by Inland Waterway, as well as the convention on safeguarding the submarine and cultural heritage.
Agreements with Chile and Iran on double taxation avoidance and an agreement with Poland on the mutual protection of classified data were ratified.
An agreement on the privileges and immunity of the International Criminal Court was also ratified.
The MPs, who finished this week's session, ratified three European agreements on the prevention of the airing of programmes broadcast outside state borders and other similar issues.