BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4825

HR-BULLETINS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4825 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4825HINA Zagreb 7 December 2002PARLIAMENT ADOPTS STATE BUDGET FOR 2003ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament adopted the state budget for 2003 in the amount of 87.6 billion kuna (EUR11.84 billion) just after midnight on Friday. Parliament adopted the state's most important annual financial document after a marathon voting on some 450 amendments worth almost three billion kuna (EUR405.4 million) which had been moved to the draft budget. The 2003 budget was adopted with 78 votes in favour and 12 against. The government did not adopt any one amendment in its entirety, with the exception of the one moved by Marijana Petir of the Croatian Peasants' Party to increase by one million kuna funds for the Bureau for the Protection of Nature. The ministers said, however, that the government did adopt parts of some amendments in a variety of ways. The government's rejection of the MPs' amendment