CROATIAN UPPER HOUSE IN SESSION

( Editorial: --> 5270 ) ZAGREB, Dec 2 (Hina) - The Croatian Parliament's House of Counties began its ninth session on Tuesday morning and determined a nine- item agenda after a short discussion. The main topic of the one-day session will be a bill on amendments to and changes of the Croatian Constitution. The upper house is expected to consider another six bills in the urgent parliamentary procedure. It will also discuss a bill in the second reading and a bill in the first reading. Ivan Ninic of the SDP (Social and Democratic Party) proposed that the House of Counties, like the House of Representatives, should hold question time at each new session, or, at least, hold question time twice during regular sittings. Responding to Ninic's proposal, the upper house's speaker, Kartica Ivanisevic, suggested that the issue be discussed by clubs of deputies and after that the House of Counties would consider it at its following session. (hina) mš 021130 MET dec 97