CRO PRIVATIZATION FUND TO PREPARE PRIVATIZATION OF FIRMS IN E. CRO

CRO $ ATIA ZAGREB, Oct 29 (Hina) - Croatia's Privatization Fund (HFP) director Milan Kovac asked the U.N. Transitional Administration (UNTAES) officials in eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Sirmium, to enable Fund representatives to visit companies in the area in question. Firms in the Croatian area under the U.N. transitional Administration are registered as the ownership of the Fund. It was necessary soon to assess the state of the companies in order to begin preparations for the ownership transformation and privatization, M. Kovac told Daniel A. Vernon, an ownership transformation advisor at the UNTAES civil affairs department. Kovac said displaced people from the Croatian Danubian area were calling him to ask him to do something in order to stop the (Serb rebels') destruction of firms' assets and removal of property to Serbia. Vernon asked from the Fund a detailed list of firms and towns and villages which experts should tour. It was agreed that a final list would be drafted at the following meeting for a month. (hina) jn mš 292023 MET oct 96