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Gov't moves amendments to Electronic Media Act, law on local self-government

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ZAGREB, April 5 (Hina) - The Croatian Government on Thursday drew up amendments to the Electronic Media Act, stipulating temporary suspensions of the work of TV stations whose broadcasts may pose a threat to the physical and mental development of children or whose broadcasts may contain elements of hate speech.
ZAGREB, April 5 (Hina) - The Croatian Government on Thursday drew up amendments to the Electronic Media Act, stipulating temporary suspensions of the work of TV stations whose broadcasts may pose a threat to the physical and mental development of children or whose broadcasts may contain elements of hate speech.

The draft amendments that were sent into parliamentary procedure also bring about strict rules about TV commercials and about shares of the external and one's own production.

The amendments provide for the establishment of an independent Electronic Media Agency whose council would be a regulatory body in the electronic media area.

The Ivo Sanader Cabinet also sent to parliament draft amendments to the law on local self-government.

Amendments envisage a possibility for citizens to initiate a referendum on the dismissal of mayors.

The draft stipulates that it is necessary that 33 percent of eligible voters sign the initiative for holding a referendum on the matter.

The outcome of the referendum can be treated as valid if 33 percent of the electorate in a constituency turns out to vote.

The local town and city councils will be able to initiate the replacement of mayors, if the parliaments okays the draft.

The draft also tackles the matter of elections of councils for ethnic minorities where they make up over 15 percent of the local population. In those communities, ethnic minorities will be entitled to elect deputy mayors.

The elections for ethnic minority councils are likely to be hold in late May.

The government also moved the ratification of a European convention for the protection of audiovisual heritage.

The Sanader cabinet proposes the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol alongside he United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Croatia thus commits itself to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by five percent until 2012.

The greatest efforts to this effect are to be made in the energy sector that makes up over 74 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the country.

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