The bill aims at setting up an operation and communications centre with a toll free telephone number 112.
According to State Secretary in the Interior Ministry, Ivica Buconjic, the centre should be opened on 1 January 2005 and would employ 800 people. A total of 80 million kuna of the budgetary funds should be earmarked for the centre, he said.
The session resumed with the voting on the bill.