ZAGREB, Oct 25 (Hina) - The government is not satisfied with the speed of changes at the Croatian Radio and Television (HRT), and the fact that a new law on television has not yet been passed is no excuse for the slow rate of changes,
vice premier Zeljka Antunovic said during question time Wednesday at the Croatian parliament's House of Representatives. Asked about the law on the HRT and why changes were o slow, Antunovic said the Government was working at drafting the new law, but the existing law was not an obstacle to speedy changes at the HRT. Asked by Milan Djukic (Serb People's Party) when the Parliament would be send amendments to the Law on Areas of Special Government Care, considering the fact that the issues of the return of refugees and their care could not be solved effectively, Antunovic said a procedure of amending some laws regulating the issue was in progress. She announced the establishment of a special cen
ZAGREB, Oct 25 (Hina) - The government is not satisfied with the
speed of changes at the Croatian Radio and Television (HRT), and the
fact that a new law on television has not yet been passed is no
excuse for the slow rate of changes, vice premier Zeljka Antunovic
said during question time Wednesday at the Croatian parliament's
House of Representatives.
Asked about the law on the HRT and why changes were o slow, Antunovic
said the Government was working at drafting the new law, but the
existing law was not an obstacle to speedy changes at the HRT.
Asked by Milan Djukic (Serb People's Party) when the Parliament
would be send amendments to the Law on Areas of Special Government
Care, considering the fact that the issues of the return of refugees
and their care could not be solved effectively, Antunovic said a
procedure of amending some laws regulating the issue was in
progress.
She announced the establishment of a special central body which
will more efficiently and better solve issues of caring for
displaced persons.
Asked by Djukic when a means of compensation for property damaged in
terrorist actions would be set, Justice Minister Stjepan
Ivanisevic said the drafting of such a provision was not simple
because of inappropriate terminology.
In many cases these were not terrorist actions, but normal military
actions during the Homeland Defence war, Ivanisevic said. he
announced the Government would ask the Parliament to prolong the
deadline for the drafting of this legal provision for two months.
Asked by Mirjana Bajt (Croatian democratic Union, HDZ) whether the
Justice Ministry intends to process war crimes committed after
World War 2, Ivanisevic said the processing of war crimes was the
ministry's priority, and the state attorney's office was working on
it intensively.
Asked by Ivo Fabijanic (Social Democratic Party, SDP) whether tax
debts of soccer clubs would be pardoned, Finance Minister Mato
Crkvenac said they would not.
Soccer clubs will be given the possibility to pay their debts in
several instalments, which is a possibility the law envisages for
citizens and companies for which it is established in regular
procedure they are not able to pay their debts at once, and many
citizens use this right.
Asked how to solve the problem of Croatian citizens who gained their
right to a pension in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Labour and Social Welfare
Minister Davorko Vidovic said Bosnia-Herzegovina had taken on the
obligation to pay these pensions as of May 1.
The Labour Ministry has, however, drafted a bill according to which
Croatia would pay the difference between the pensions received from
Bosnia-Herzegovina and adequate pensions as received by pensioners
in Croatia.
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