There is no manipulation. No data has been fiddled. The documents released on the web sites are identical to documents the government has been adopted during the negotiations," Plenkovic told a news conference he held in the ministry's building on Saturday.

Pointing out that all terms and conditions for Croatia's admission to the EU will be specified in the accession treaty, Plenkovic said that the Croatian government has already published more documents than some other newcomers.

He reiterated that a total of 139 documents on 35 policy chapters were posted on the government's web site. Those are documents which the Croatian government can make available to the public contrary to documents owned by EU member states the publication of which should be referred to European institutions for approval, he said.

Plenkovic said that the government would treat the accession treaty the same way so that Croatian voters can have access to it before voting on Croatia's EU membership at a referendum. Plenkovic expects the elaboration of the accession treaty in late November or in early December.

Asked why policy chapters' benchmarks had not been made public, Plenkovic responded that they were no secret and that the published reports on fulfillment of obligations showed all what the government had done regarding each of 138 benchmarks.

He agreed with statements that documents available to the public were written in legal jargon rather incomprehensible to ordinary people, but added that the government was preparing an information campaign aimed at informing the public about the matter and other details from the negotiations, such as transitional periods and exemptions in some policy chapters.