PARLIAMENT COULD ADOPT NEW RULE BOOK BY END OF APRIL -- ARLOVIC

ZAGREB, March 1 (Hina) - Croatian National Parliament House of Representatives vice-president and chairman of the Committee for the Constitution, Rule Book and Political System, Mato Arlovic, on Wednesday expressed conviction the Lower House would have its own, new Rule Book by the end of April. Arlovic said most motions for amendments to the Rule Book which had been forwarded by MPs and parliament's working bodies to the Committee for the Constitution, Rule Book and Political System related to relations between the two parliament houses, relations between the House of Representatives and the Government and relations between the House of Representatives and the President. The Committee also received opinions that the institute of reply should be reinstated in the parliament, define the violation of the Rule Book and extend question time. It has also been motioned that, besides MPs, bills can be motioned by party benches, and that a bill, when handed into procedure, must be discussed. This would rescind the objection institute which was active until now, and thanks to which bills had been removed off the agenda. Arlovic said he expected a working version of the new Rule Book to be prepared for next week, and the motioned draft could enter parliamentary procedure by mid-March. The new Rule Book could be adopted by the end of April. (hina) lml jn