The media committee also adopted a conclusion entrusting the government with the task to consider a possibility for connecting Hina's database Eva with the documentation base of the Vjesnik daily.
Members of this committee commended Hina's efforts to finance itself on its own in the light of the fact that reliance on its own income has increased over the years with decreasing funds from the state budget.
They also recommended that Hina be more oriented towards end users.
The agency's director-general, Mirko Bolfek, said that Hina was now facing a dilemma whether it should retain its fundamental role of being a provider of agency news to other media or to develop as a provider of information to end users.
This means that Hina should decide whether it will further expand its final products and other services that may be profitable or it will stick to its fundamental role of offering general news.
Bolfek added that the the relations between the agency and the government as its founder should be defined in the light of reduced financial support from the state budget. By the end of this year, the share of the state budgetary funds in the financing of Hina is expected to fall below 50 percent for the first time, the director said.