Under the proposed amendments to the Penal Code, exemption from the statute of limitations refers to crimes defined by international law as well as to crimes defined by the Constitution, and the bill on exemption from the statute of limitations for war profiteering and privatisation crime lists such crimes committed during the 1991-1995 Homeland War and the process of peaceful reintegration.

Crimes falling under the category of war profiteering and privatisation crime include, among others, unconscientious dealings, causing a bankruptcy, abuse of powers, illegal trade, conclusion of a harmful contract, tax fraud, embezzlement, forging of official documents, bribery, and evasion of customs control.

Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Party said in the debate that he was in favour of revising the ownership transformation and privatisation process. Commenting on the privatisation of Croatian banks, he said that their financial rehabilitation cost around HRK 13 billion, that they were sold for five-six billion kuna and were today worth 40 billion kuna. If someone were to try to revise that now, Europe would not allow it, and Croatia would go bankrupt because it lives on loans, Kajin said.

He added that businessman Luka Rajic had taken out of the country EUR 300 million he earned by selling the Dukat dairy company to the French Lactalis, returning only a small portion of that money by investing EUR 50 million in the pharmaceutical industry.

Nenad Stazic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said that a state of war was never declared in Croatia, so it would not be possible to prosecute anyone for war profiteering in line with the proposed bills, which he said was why they should be withdrawn and improved.

Amendments to the laws on the Judicial Appointment Council and on prosecutors' offices, which are part of benchmarks for closing the policy area No. 23, Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, were supported by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the Croatian People's Party/Croatian Pensioners' Party (HNS/HSU).