ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - At the beginning of its session on Friday, the Croatian parliament endorsed a bill on changes to the Law on Farming and Fishery Incentives. The bill reduces incentives for wheat, sunflower, sugar beet,
freshwater fish and mussels, and increases incentives for soy. It also envisages lower thresholds for the granting of incentives for the breeding of heifers. Although a vote on a final bill on the ID card and criteria for the privatisation of state-owned farming land were to be voted on today, the vote was rescheduled for next week. The MPs have started debating a final bill on changes to the Law on Areas of Special State Concern. The bill should help provide conditions for the restitution of private property currently occupied by refugees and displaced people. Deputy Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction Minister Venko Cur
ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - At the beginning of its session on Friday,
the Croatian parliament endorsed a bill on changes to the Law on
Farming and Fishery Incentives.
The bill reduces incentives for wheat, sunflower, sugar beet,
freshwater fish and mussels, and increases incentives for soy.
It also envisages lower thresholds for the granting of incentives
for the breeding of heifers.
Although a vote on a final bill on the ID card and criteria for the
privatisation of state-owned farming land were to be voted on
today, the vote was rescheduled for next week.
The MPs have started debating a final bill on changes to the Law on
Areas of Special State Concern.
The bill should help provide conditions for the restitution of
private property currently occupied by refugees and displaced
people.
Deputy Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction Minister
Venko Curlin said conditions for property restitution should be
provided by the end of the year, by which time refugees and
displaced persons would leave the property they currently occupy
and return it to its owners.
Those without permanent accommodation in Croatia or other former
Yugoslav countries would be given land plots and construction
material, houses purchased by the state, or provided with temporary
accommodation, Curlin said.
The bill also envisages amended requirements for inclusion in the
system of areas of special state concern. The system would include
undeveloped and sparsely populated municipalities and those with
large mine-infested areas.
The amendments do not specify the areas to be included in the
system, but rather mechanisms which will make it possible to
reconsider the status of areas of special state concern every year.
The session has resumed with a discussion about the bills among
parliamentary benches.
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