As part of its programme for economic recovery, the Croatian government on Thursday sent to parliament for consideration three bills, including a distraint bill and a bill on public distrainors, both aligned with EU legislation.
Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic said his ministry was not satisfied with current distraint procedures because they were too slow.
This is why the government has decided to introduce in the judiciary the model that is in force in 19 of the 27 EU countries, under which distraint rulings are made and carried out not by courts, but by public distrainors.
The government proposed that the parliament amend the Act on the Croatian Chamber of Agriculture to abolish the current obligatory membership fee for Chamber members, and introduce a contribution fee that would have to be paid by all members of the Chamber exercising the right to farming grants.
The government also proposed merging the Council for Agricultural Advisory Service and the Chamber of Agriculture into one institution.
The government also sent to parliament for adoption a constitutional bill on the enforcement of the Constitution defining the enforcement of provisions from constitutional amendments adopted in mid-June.
Most of those provisions refer to the completion of Croatia's EU entry talks and to alignment with the EU acquis communautaire.
Government officials also announced that the government would soon adopt regulations on the sale of shares and interests in the state portfolio at public auctions on the stock market, as well as regulations on conditions and models of management of real estate owned by the Croatian Privatisation Fund.
