ZAGREB, Feb 4 (Hina) - MP Nenad Stazic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Tuesday dismissed accusations by some opposition members who said that a new law on Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) would be adopted in 2003 only
because this was a pre-election year.
ZAGREB, Feb 4 (Hina) - MP Nenad Stazic of the Social Democratic
Party (SDP) on Tuesday dismissed accusations by some opposition
members who said that a new law on Croatian Radio and Television
(HRT) would be adopted in 2003 only because this was a pre-election
year. #L#
Stazic said at a news conference which the SDP bench held that such
claims did not stand, and recalled that the law should have been
adopted at the end of the last year.
Thus, the SDP member responded to accusations of some Social
Liberals (HSLS) and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
representatives who had asserted at parliamentary committees'
sessions that the new law would be passed only for the election's
sake.
"The new law is the continuation of the existent one, which will
resolve the legal gap and regulate the continuation of the work of
HRT as a public institution," Stazic said.
The SDP MP added that the law was also necessary because of the
regulation of authorities in HRT in light of current disputes
between the management and editorial structures in that
institution.
The bench whip, Mato Arlovic, announced several amendments to the
draft act, including a change which would stipulate that the
parliament should endorse the statute of the HRT and that two
percent of all subscription fees should be allocated for the
financing of the news programme and programmes indented for ethnic
minorities.