CRO LOWER HOUSES CLOSES 22ND SESSION ( Editorial: --> 9117 )

( Editorial: --> 9117 ) ZAGREB, Nov 7 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament's Lower House on Friday passed a law on amendments to the Law on Areas of Special Government Care, by which amendments the Law covers additional municipalities. The government has the obligation to within three months submit an integral bill on amendments to the Law on Areas of Special Government Care and to subdivide villages and towns in the Danube river region of eastern Croatia into the first or second group of areas of special government care. Due to an insufficient number of attending representatives, the Lower House again failed to vote on a final bill on education in languages of ethnic or national minorities, which is in the third reading. Parliament speaker Vlatko Pavletic concluded the session by announcing the next one after a parliamentary delegations returns from a visit to Bulgaria. (hina) ha mm 072101 MET nov 97