ZAGREB, Nov 8 (Hina) - According to the social stimulation housing project, citizens would soon be able to purchase apartments of 50 square metres surface in average for 300 to 350 German marks a month, for up to 31 years, and an
average annual interest rate of four percent. The government on Thursday forwarded the final text of the draft law on social stimulation house building to the parliament. In relation to a previous draft, this one stipulates that the obligatory downpayment for citizens would be decreased from 20 to 15 percent of the price of the apartment. The project will be financed by the government, local self-government units, citizens and commercial banks. Applications for the purchase of flats would be submitted to self-government units which would also set priorities for the purchase. According to Reconstruction Minister Radimir Cacic, 2,000 flats are planned to be build this year, 3,000 next year and in 2003 possibly 3,500. The
ZAGREB, Nov 8 (Hina) - According to the social stimulation housing
project, citizens would soon be able to purchase apartments of 50
square metres surface in average for 300 to 350 German marks a
month, for up to 31 years, and an average annual interest rate of
four percent.
The government on Thursday forwarded the final text of the draft law
on social stimulation house building to the parliament.
In relation to a previous draft, this one stipulates that the
obligatory downpayment for citizens would be decreased from 20 to
15 percent of the price of the apartment.
The project will be financed by the government, local self-
government units, citizens and commercial banks.
Applications for the purchase of flats would be submitted to self-
government units which would also set priorities for the purchase.
According to Reconstruction Minister Radimir Cacic, 2,000 flats
are planned to be build this year, 3,000 next year and in 2003
possibly 3,500.
The beneficiaries of so-called privileged pensions will in the next
year continue to receive lesser amounts as they have been receiving
since October 1 of this year. This is suggested in amendments to the
law on pension insurance and the rights of members of parliament, by
which a progressive decrease in privileged pensions over 2,500 kuna
would continue at rates of 8 to 20 percent.
The amendments would apply to MPs, government members,
Constitutional Court judges, the state auditor, members of the
former Yugoslav Peoples' Army, soldiers of the WWII People's
Liberation War, and members of the Croatian Homeland Defence War.
The government also forwarded to the parliament a bill on the
ratification of an agreement on social insurance signed with
Yugoslavia in 1997.
The agreement is founded on the principle of equality of insurance
beneficiaries in both countries in social insurance rights and
obligations, the guaranteed payment of pensions and other benefits
for citizens residing in the other country, taking into
consideration the length of service for retirement acquired in the
other country, urgent medical assistance during temporary stay in
the other country, and so on.
The government today also decided to initiate proceedings for
signing the international convention for preventing the financing
of terrorism, adopted in 1999, which 63 countries have signed so
far.
The government should soon be receiving information as to what has
so far been done and whether more should be done to promote the
system of fighting the financing of terrorism.
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