We were also given a promise that the Council for the Development of the Civil Society will be formed by mid-February, the head of the non-governmental organisation GONG, Suzana Jasic, told reporters on Tuesday.
She added that Deputy PM Kosor had assured them that a new person would be appointed head of the Office for Associations.
Some 15 NGOs believe that along with the replaced head of the Office for Associations, Jadranka Cigelj, the employee at the Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) who unlawfully investigated candidates for the Council for the Development of the Civil Society should also face the consequences.
Representatives of civil society urged adopting regulations that would clearly define the vetting procedure and demanded that the results of investigations into members of the Council for the Development of the Civil Society be destroyed.
Contrary to Cigelj's claims, Deputy PM Kosor said that she had not issued a request to check up on candidates for the Council, but that this had been done by Cigelj.
Kosor said that the government could not tolerate the vetting of those people because they did not have access to secret documents and their activities did not pose a threat to national security. She added that it was only last Wednesday that she had learned of the problem.
She would not say if SOA was responsible for acting on the illegal request.
The chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Home Policy and National Security, Ivan Jarnjak, told reporters today that last Friday he had requested a detailed report on the Cigelj case from the Council for the Civilian Supervision of Intelligence Services and the Office of the National Security Council.
Speaking to reporters after a session of the Committee, Jarnjak said that the Committee questioned the lawfulness of SOA's conduct towards candidates for the Council for the Development of Civil Society, whose vetting had been requested by Cigelj.