CROATIAN GOVT CONTINUES TO CONFORM LAWS TO EUROPEAN STANDARDS

( Editorial: --> 8618 ) DUBROVNIK, Sept 7 (Hina) - A great deal has been done in the past year to conform Croatia's legislature to the principles and standards of Council of Europe conventions, said European Integration Minister Ljerka Mintas-Hodak in Dubrovnik on Monday. "We are still working on the second part of the legislature and new laws are in preparation so that these laws can be conformed with the Council of Europe Constitution and Convention", said Mintas Hodak. A two-day conference of the Working group to research the concordance of Croatia's legislature to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and experts from the Council of Europe began in Dubrovnik on Monday. The Working group will discuss concordance of the legislature with European standards regarding the State Justice Council; violations; labour; authorisation of bodies within the Interior Ministry; humanitarian organisations and other objections set by the Council of Europe regarding the Law on Associations. The convention will involve the participation of numerous experts, representatives of the Croatian Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the High Magistrate's Court and representatives of the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Education and Sport, Justice Ministry, Administration Ministry, Interior Ministry, the Ministry of Development and Reconstruction and the Defence Ministry. 071541 MET sep 98