Marijana Petir of the HSS objected to the bill's rigorousness.
"No UEFA member country has such a rigorous law. This law introduces zero tolerance to alcohol, which means that you can drive a car if your blood alcohol is 0.5 per mille, but you can't drink a small glass of beer at a game watching your favourite team," she said, adding the amendments undermined sport teams, sponsor contracts and VAT, and attacked "the common people who drink a glass of beer or wine and aren't causing any incidents."
Sime Lucin of the opposition Social Democrats said the bill was custom made for the police and not citizens, adding the amendments would result in a "purely repressive law."
Vedran Rozic of the HDZ agreed that the bill should be read once again in order to make the law as good as possible, but added that the HDZ supported repressive measures against hooligans.
Under the bill of amendments, involvement in a fight, organising riots or destroying property at sporting events are treated as felonies punishable by imprisonment.
Involvement in a fight or assault on spectators or other persons is punishable by imprisonment ranging from three months to three years.
Organisers or leaders of such felonies can be punished with imprisonment ranging from one to eight years, or from three to 10 years if someone is killed.
Organising riots at sporting events will be punishable by one- to five-year' imprisonment, destroying property at sporting events by up to three years' imprisonment, while those who disregard measures and bans may be fined or sent to prison for up to one year.
A state secretary at the Interior Ministry, Ivica Buconjic, said that since the last amendments to this law on 17 April 2009, 1,766 persons were arrested, 74 sustained light and seven serious physical injuries, 30 police officers sustained light and one sustained serious physical injuries, 44 Interior Ministry vehicles were damaged, as were 52 city buses, 37 trams and 11 railroad cars.