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Croatia Receives New Spatial Development Strategy

The Croatian Parliament unanimously adopted the Spatial Development Strategy of Croatia on Friday, a fundamental state document for guiding spatial development.

The last such strategy was adopted 20 years ago, and the need for a new one was imposed by phenomena and processes identified through monitoring the state of space, a whole range of sectoral strategies, and significant changes in the international context.

The new Strategy serves as a basis for the development of the State Spatial Development Plan, which will define which strategic projects are to be undertaken and thus avoid potential inconsistencies with other documents.

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The Parliament amended the Bankruptcy Act, facilitating the submission of proposals for opening pre-bankruptcy proceedings by reducing the number of required documents and extending deadlines: the deadline for filing claims, for the debtor’s response, the deadline in which creditors can contest the claims of other creditors, the deadline for drafting the final restructuring plan, etc.

It adopted the Law on the Regulation of the Railway Services Market and the Protection of Passenger Rights in Railway Transport, and amended the Law on Water for Human Consumption.

It sent to the second reading proposals for laws on financing units of local and regional self-government and on the authority of the Government to regulate specific issues within the jurisdiction of the Croatian Parliament.

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The Parliament rejected two proposals from the SDP: on the oil and petroleum products market, and on quality and logistics in healthcare. The same fate befell the proposal from reformist Darinko Dumbović to amend the Law on Areas of Special State Concern.

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Reports on the effects of the implementation of the Islands Act in 2014 and 2015, on the financial audit of fire organizations, and on the work of the Personal Data Protection Agency for 2016 received the support of the representatives.

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The agenda of the current session was supplemented with eight new items, among them a proposal to relieve Goran Selanec, who was elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court on Wednesday, from the position of Deputy Ombudsman for Gender Equality.

Next week, when the first anniversary of his Government ‘falls’, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković will submit the Annual Report to the Parliament.