ZAGREB, July 20 (Hina) - During its spring-summer sitting, Croatia's parliament adopted 54 laws and about hundred acts.
ZAGREB, July 20 (Hina) - During its spring-summer sitting,
Croatia's parliament adopted 54 laws and about hundred acts. #L#
The Sabor passed laws on the military, which is seen as a basis for
the reform in the army. The laws on the defence, military service
and participation in peace mission as well as on the production and
modernisation of weapons should help the country's efforts to have
a smaller and modernised armed force with better equipment.
MPs voted for the financial laws on the regulation of the banking
system and the securities market.
In the early summer Croatia got a new law on prize games and a law on
the regulation of the status of religious communities.
MPs passed a law on the state support in the farming which
thoroughly changed the previous system of subsidies in agriculture
and fishing. Under the new law, there are four models of subsidies:
one remains similar to the previous system, the second model is the
support to farms with the elderly people, the third is oriented to
investment and assistance to commercial producers and the last one
is the assistance in the development of rural areas.
The Sabor passed about 30 laws on the ratification of various
international agreements, conventions and protocols.
One of such laws referred to the confirmation of the bilateral
agreement with Slovenia on the Krsko nuclear power plant, which
caused deep divisions in the then ruling five-party coalition.
After that Premier Ivica Racan offered his resignation, and the
entire government fell after it had been in office for two and a half
years.
Between the mid-January and the mid-July, MPs adopted several
strategies, including ones on defence, national security, power
industry, environmental protection, agriculture and fishing.
Croatia's parliament has two regular sittings annually: the first
is the so-called spring-summer session (15 January-15 July) and the
second is the autumn-winter from 15 September to 15 December.
According to announcements, the Sabor will hold its extra-ordinary
session on 26-27 July to take a vote of confidence in a new cabinet
proposed by the PM designate Racan.
(hina) ms