ZAGREB, June 1 (Hina) - The aim of the newly adopted Reconstruction Law is to determine all material goods which were destroyed or damaged from the beginning of the Greater Serbian aggression on Croatia, during the Homeland War and
until the completion of the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube River region.
ZAGREB, June 1 (Hina) - The aim of the newly adopted Reconstruction
Law is to determine all material goods which were destroyed or
damaged from the beginning of the Greater Serbian aggression on
Croatia, during the Homeland War and until the completion of the
peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube River region. #L#
The right to reconstruction have the owners, co-owners and
protected leaseholders of damaged family houses or flats, who are
citizens of Croatia or were inhabitants of Croatia in 1991,
providing they state they would return to the reconstructed unit.
The right to reconstruction will not have persons against which a
final verdict had been read for crime, while the same will be
postponed for persons who are under indictment.
The present Reconstruction Law differs from the former one in that
the list of priorities has been omitted.
However, Public Works, reconstruction and Construction Minister
Radimir Cacic had been asked to, within a month of the Law's taking
effect, draft a rule book developing the priorities for
reconstruction.
The present law also does not include provisions which established
the rights for support in reconstruction for temporary users of
private property, mostly Croat refugees from Yugoslavia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
These people will be secured alternative accommodation, which will
be regulated by another law.
For a greater efficiency of reconstruction, new models will be
introduced, such as a person with the right to reconstruction can
receive a new flat or house into ownership in exchange of a damaged
house or flat.
Also, the person with the right to reconstruction can be taken care
of in a social care centre if he hands over ownership of the damaged
unit to the State.
The user of the right, instead of reconstruction his/her house or
flat, may receive financial support o 40,000 kuna (DM10,000) (4th
degree of damage), 70,000 kuna (5th degree of damage) or 110,000
kuna (6th degree of damage).
According to the Final report on War Damage in Croatia, there are
about 183,000 damaged or destroyed houses or flats. So far 96,000
units have been completely reconstructed, for which 9 billion kuna
had been spent (about US$1 billion).
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