ZAGREB, Oct 22 (Hina) - Opposition MPs at the Croatian National Parliament House of Representatives on Friday harshly criticised motioned draft amendments to the Law on Utility Management, deeming it continued the restriction of units
of local self-government and centralisation in financing. The goal of motioned amendments to the Law on Utility Management is to introduce order in prices for utility services because administrative control has showed variants in the application of laws and prices in 20 big towns and several dozen municipalities, Construction, Urban development and Residence Minister, Marko Sivac, said. It has been suggested, he said, that the responsibility for determining prices of utility services be transferred to units of self-government which are owners of companies performing the utility duties. These units would in the first degree determine the price of utility services, and in the second
ZAGREB, Oct 22 (Hina) - Opposition MPs at the Croatian National
Parliament House of Representatives on Friday harshly criticised
motioned draft amendments to the Law on Utility Management, deeming
it continued the restriction of units of local self-government and
centralisation in financing.
The goal of motioned amendments to the Law on Utility Management is
to introduce order in prices for utility services because
administrative control has showed variants in the application of
laws and prices in 20 big towns and several dozen municipalities,
Construction, Urban development and Residence Minister, Marko
Sivac, said.
It has been suggested, he said, that the responsibility for
determining prices of utility services be transferred to units of
self-government which are owners of companies performing the
utility duties.
These units would in the first degree determine the price of utility
services, and in the second phase, this would be done by the Economy
Ministry, that is, the Government.
Opposition MPs said this was policy according to which local units
would only receive new tasks, without the possibility of their
stable functioning.
They held that the problems there were in the utility management law
had mostly been conditioned by the too large a number of units of
local self-government.
They stressed that when establishing units of local self-
government, economic reasons had not been taken into
consideration, but political ones, so they have no stable sources
of financing.
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