ZAGREB, April 5 (Hina) - Parliament on Thursday endorsed with a majority vote a bill on the prevention of conflicts of interests in the performance of public duties, and a conclusion urging the government to carry out radical changes
or submit a new text of the bill by second reading. The bill, one of three in an anti-corruption package, among else bans state officials and members of their families to own companies, and regulates the value to which state officials may receive gifts. Parliament today also endorsed a bill of changes to a law on secondary education, which envisages transferring part of the rights and obligations of secondary education from the state to the county level. MPs of the Croatian Democratic Union, the strongest opposition party, voted against the bill, deeming the time was not right for decentralisation and that counties would find it difficult to finance new obligations
ZAGREB, April 5 (Hina) - Parliament on Thursday endorsed with a
majority vote a bill on the prevention of conflicts of interests in
the performance of public duties, and a conclusion urging the
government to carry out radical changes or submit a new text of the
bill by second reading.
The bill, one of three in an anti-corruption package, among else
bans state officials and members of their families to own
companies, and regulates the value to which state officials may
receive gifts.
Parliament today also endorsed a bill of changes to a law on
secondary education, which envisages transferring part of the
rights and obligations of secondary education from the state to the
county level.
MPs of the Croatian Democratic Union, the strongest opposition
party, voted against the bill, deeming the time was not right for
decentralisation and that counties would find it difficult to
finance new obligations.
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