Committee chairman Ivan Jarnjak told reporters after a closed meeting that the Committee wanted the Chief Public Prosecutor to establish whether the government's decision of October 2004 applied to all the records, regardless of whether they were audio or video recordings or just transcripts of the meeting that took place on the northern archipelago of Brijuni on the eve of a Croatian military offensive dubbed Operation Storm in the summer of 1995.
The Committee also urged the National Security Council to discuss the issue of keeping and protecting classified data.
"The Committee is of the view that the inadequate protection or publication of information classified as top secret poses a threat to national security," Jarnjak said.
In addition to Chief Public Prosecutor Mladen Bajic, the Committee will also send its conclusions to the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the Sabor, expecting them to inform the Committee within a month about steps they were taking to ensure the protection of classified data.
The Committee's conclusions were carried with a vote of eight to two, with two abstentions.
The Committee members who abstained from the vote, Pero Kovacevic of the Party of Rights (HSP) and Ante Markov of the Peasant Party (HSS), called on the government to state clearly whether the records of the Brijuni meeting had been declassified only for the purposes of the Hague tribunal or for the sake of the public in general.