CRO LOWER HOUSE DISCUSSES TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL REPORT

ZAGREB, March 11 (Hina) - Representatives of Opposition party benches at the Croatian National Parliament House of Representatives on Thursday dismissed a report by the Telecommunications Council, describing it as scanty. This is a shameful, scanty report, five pages filled with numbers and statistics, but without one concrete example, case, or name, Hrvoje Kraljevic stressed on behalf of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) bench. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) bench cannot accept the report, as it does not say what was given to whom, why or under what conditions, Mato Arlovic said. Kraljevic pointed out the concession tender for the mobile communication network GSM, worth three billion German marks. The report does not state who was granted the concession nor what made their offer better that the other three. Arlovic also recalled cases of the Moslavina television, Split's ATV and the GSM network. He warned that eleven offers had been submitted for 40 tenders. Not one bid was submitted for 30 tenders, and Arlovic wished to know for what prices had the concessions been offered. "Is it possible that radio stations at a county and local level are being disabled in this bad financial situation," he asked. The Lower House also discussed amendments to the law on the status of refugees and displaced persons. Croatian Party of Rights representatives motioned law provisions to determine that displaced persons were not obliged to pay compensation for the use of abandoned flats of houses allocated to them temporarily. The Parliament's Committee for Legislature, however, held that the usage of flats or houses owned by a third person by displaced persons and refugees should be subject to the provisions of the law on ownership and other true rights, not regulations on legal and binding relations. (hina) lml