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Zagreb - The Croatian parliament on Wednesday adopted the State Assets Management Strategy to ensure sustainable, economic and transparent management and use of state assets over the next seven years.
The strategy sets out long-term goals and guidelines for the management of state assets while taking into account the country's economic and development priorities.
The government plans to reduce the real estate portfolio and boost investment projects by creating rights of construction, easements, donation, lease and use. The aim is to increase investment in state-owned properties, continue the privatisation of state-owned enterprises and improve the management of legal entities of special interest to the state.
The strategy also provides for the further reduction of the portfolio managed by the Restructuring and Sale Centre (CERP). On the last day of 2018 the portfolio included 387 companies.
Parliament also passed a law on mechanisms for the resolution of tax disputes in the European Union and ratified the agreement between the Croatian and Hungarian government on cooperation in the area of the air force and air defence.
Amendments to the Conflict of Interest Prevention Act, put forward by the Social Democratic Party, were rejected, while the bills on genetically modified organisms and prevention of air pollution will receive a second reading.
The agenda was expanded to include nine new items, including a bill proposing the prohibition of glyphosate, a dangerous herbicide.