The Chamber agrees that liabilities have to be paid but will ask the relevant ministries that the status of state aid be equalised with that of salaries in the distraint law, so that only part of the aid can be sized, HPK president Mato Brlosic told reporters.
He said the HPK failed to agree with Agriculture Minister Tihomir Jakovina and Finance Minister Slavko Linic on the payment of aid for 2012 to begin at the end of last year, but the HPK was promised the payment would begin this month and expected the aid to be paid in full.
Brlosic said 6,500 family farms who owed money to the Tax Administration had not received the incentives and that he expected this to be dealt with.
He went on to say that the HPH was not happy that nothing had been done regarding the management of farmland, and that the Chamber expected a farmland law to be adopted urgently.
The chairman of the HPK committee on associations, Stjepan Kunovec, underlined the importance of adopting an agricultural development and production strategy, and urged relevant institutions to regulate the use of diesel fuel in agriculture.
The HPK representatives said they were also unhappy with the law on the legalisation of unlawfully built facilities, saying legalisation costs were too high.