GOVERNMENT TAKES CHARGE OF STATE-OWNED PROPERTY ISSUES

ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Thursday set a 60-day deadline for all bodies of state administration to enter all important information on the real estate they are using or managing into the State-Owned Property Registry. Bodies of state administration are expected to submit to the government's Office for State-Owned Property data on offices which they are not using for their work within the same deadline. These conclusions were adopted after a discussion on a report on the work of the Office for State-Owned Property, which shows that out of some 30 bodies of state administration, 19 have submitted information about their property. Prime Minister Ivica Racan applauded the regulating of the status of state property, wondering what the public might say about the state and the people leading it if they themselves did not know what they owned and tolerated state property being stolen and used illegally. The public may think that the state and its administration are poorely run, Racan answered the question himself, adding the mess with the state property was not accidental. It was a precondition for murky business to the state's detriment, he said. The government has requested all bodies of state administration to, within six months, enter the property they are using or managing into land registers. A property management strategy should be submitted to the government within three months. The government today also adopted an implementation plan for removing obstacles to investments in Croatia. (hina) lml sb