The new legislation defines the HRT as a public institution providing public media services, but does not regulate the internal organisation of the HRT, which will be done by its statute.
Under the law, the HRT and the government are expected to sign a five-year contract on programmes obligations of the national broadcaster's obligations with regard to programmes and the sources and amount of funding for their broadcasting.
The HRT would have a management board consisting of a president and two members.
The management will be appointed by the Programmes Council and the five-member Supervisory Board. Four Supervisory Board members will be appointed and relieved by Parliament following an invitation for these posts announced by the parliamentary Media Committee. The fifth member of the Supervisory Board will be chosen by the HRT Staff Council.
The adoption of the HRT statute, the broadcaster's work programme and the financial plan fall within the authority of the Programmes Council and the Supervisory Board.
The Supervisory Board is expected to oversee the broadcaster's financial operations, determine salaries and other entitlements as well as the amount of the subscription fee.
The 11 members of the Programmes Council are to be appointed by Parliament at the recommendation of the Media Committee. The Council would consist of prominent intellectuals, artists, scholars and civil society activists.
The Programmes Council is to appoint senior editors at the proposal of the management, taking into account the opinion of journalists and editors.
The HRT is to have a commissioner for the broadcaster's clients, TV viewers and radio audience.
The national broadcaster will continue to have two sources of revenue: the subscription fee (calculated in the amount of 1.5 percent of the net average salary) and revenue from commercials and advertisements which will be restricted in the programmes.
The HRT is obliged to keep the public informed in a correct, thorough, unbiased and timely manner about events and developments in Croatia and abroad, respecting and promoting the pluralism of political, religious and other ideas.
According to Biskupic, the HRT will have to ensure that European productions make up a majority of its programmes annually.
Croatian music must make up 40 percent of music programmes on each TV and radio channel of the national broadcaster.