ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Thursday established an Office for Internal Control, which will be in charge of monitoring the financial activities of the bodies of state administration and government services. The
office is not a replacement for the State Audit, First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic said, adding the Government wanted to completely discipline itself and improve its work. The office should on a regular basis and from case to case control whether budgetary funds are used in line with the law and purposefully. The office would have the power to check every decision and inspect every document, Granic said. The office would perform control with previous announcement to the competent minister or the head of a state body. Today's government session discussed three topics regarding agriculture, including a temporary plan of spring sowing under which the total sown area would spread over 72
ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Thursday
established an Office for Internal Control, which will be in charge
of monitoring the financial activities of the bodies of state
administration and government services.
The office is not a replacement for the State Audit, First Deputy
Prime Minister Goran Granic said, adding the Government wanted to
completely discipline itself and improve its work.
The office should on a regular basis and from case to case control
whether budgetary funds are used in line with the law and
purposefully. The office would have the power to check every
decision and inspect every document, Granic said.
The office would perform control with previous announcement to the
competent minister or the head of a state body.
Today's government session discussed three topics regarding
agriculture, including a temporary plan of spring sowing under
which the total sown area would spread over 723 hectares, which is a
1.2 percent decrease compared to 2000.
The state should stimulate agricultural production on 353,000
hectares, which is 12 percent less than last year. Despite this,
almost a half of the sown area will be in the system of state
incentives.
A total of 467 million kuna of state incentives will be set aside for
spring crops (corn, barley, oats, sugar beet, sunflower and soy).
Agriculture Minister Bozidar Pankretic said spring crops would be
paid for only in money and not with money combined with production
materials as has been the case so far.
The government proposes that incentives for spring crops be
increased from six to 25 percent, which is one of the changes in a
bill to the Law on Incentives in Agriculture.
The parliament has also been suggested to cancel incentives for the
production of meat and bone meal due to 'mad cow' disease and
introduce incentives for the breeding of breeder calves. New
incentives would also be introduced for oats-growing and the
breeding of autochtonous white fish.
The government also proposes that changes be made to the size of
sowing areas which are included in the system of incentives.
The government today cancelled the protective customs rate of five
percent due to the lack of seed corn, allowing its free import.
The government authorised Transport Minister Alojz Tusek to sign an
agreement with Bosnia-Herzegovina on the use of the railway Bihac-
Knin, which is part of the Zagreb-Split railway, and which will be
reopened on January 26.
The government also adopted a proposal on the establishment of an
embassy in Dublin, Ireland, as Croatia's last diplomatic office in
European Union countries.
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