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Parliament amends laws on public assembly, public broadcaster

ZAGREB, July 6 (Hina) - Parliament on Friday amended the Public Assembly Act and as of July 15, after a seven-year ban, public assembly and protests will be allowed on St. Mark's Square, outside the buildings housing the Government, Parliament and the Constitutional Court.

Ninety MPs voted in favour, 26 were against and one abstained.

Public assembly and protests will be allowed ten metres from the Parliament and Government buildings and 20 m from the Constitutional Court. The number of participants is limited to 1,500, and protects are allowed from 8 AM to 10 PM.

Parliament amended by a majority vote the Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) Act under which it will elect by a qualified majority the HRT's director general, Directorate, Programming Council and Supervisory Board.

MPs also amended the General Tax Act to allow the publication of a list of tax debtors who have not paid their taxes for 90 days or more.

The list will consist of physical persons who owe more than HRK 100,000, legal persons who owe more than HRK 300,000, and other taxpayers who owe more than HRK 15,000. It will not contain information on debtors for whom the tax authority has allowed delayed payment, payment in instalments or debt rescheduling.

Parliament also lifted a 6% tax on the mobile phone operators as of July 1 this year, amended a law on the collection of tax debts caused by the economic crisis, and adopted reports on the execution of the 2011 budget and its revision.

It also passed a Public-Private Partnership Act, amended the Consumer Protection Act, adopted a law on the establishment of an institutional framework for the use of European Union structural instruments, and ratified a financing agreement between the Government and the European Commission as part of the IPA 3 programme.

Parliament added to the agenda of its current session, among other things, a final bill on assisted reproduction and a bill of amendments to the Financial Operations Act.

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