The government also forwarded to parliament changes to the Air Traffic and Transport Act which are to introduce the term "operating licence" as the basis for the provision of air transport services in the EU. The amendments also envisage the establishment of a civil aviation agency.
Adjusting its regulations on renewable energy sources with those of the EU, the government adopted a decree under which the minimum share of electricity from renewable energy sources (not including big hydroelectric power plants with capacity bigger than 10 megawatts) will have to make up 5.8% of the overall power consumption by the end of 2010.
The share of electricity from renewable energy sources in the overall consumption in 2002 was 0.6%, Economy Minister Branko Vukelic said.
The government adopted decrees determining incentives for the production of power from renewable energy sources and by way of co-generation (production of electricity and heat), as well as the tariff system for the production of power from those sources - windmills, biomass power plants, geothermal and biofuel power plants, etc.
The government sent parliament a bill on audiovisual services and a bill on changes to the Law on the System of State Administration, in a bid to continue efforts to depoliticise the state administration and make it professional.
Only government ministers, state secretaries and heads of state administration organisations will be considered state officials, and all the other officials (assistant ministers, deputy state secretaries, etc) will be considered civil servants.
The government adopted a report by the Council for National Minorities which reads that ethnic minorities were granted 29.7 million kuna from the government budget last year.
It also adopted a report on the implementation of the law regulating the entitlements of Croatian soldiers, which cost 4.8 billion kuna last year, with 3.4 billion having been allocated for pension and disability insurance purposes.