The Croatian government on Thursday sent to parliament draft amendments to the Cooperatives Act governing the powers of the Croatian Association of Cooperatives as an umbrella institution of cooperatives and authorising it to issue documents that will be treated as public documents.
Currently there are over 1,000 cooperatives in Croatia with over 20,000 members and employees, Minister for SMEs Gordan Maras said at the cabinet meeting.
The government also sent to parliament a draft bill prohibiting the development, improvement, production, transfer, exchange, creation, stockpiling, proliferation and use of chemical weapons in accordance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction.
The cabinet of Social Democratic Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic accepted a report on air quality in Croatia from 2008 to 2011, which showed a trend of reduction of air pollutants. The air quality is generally satisfactory except in some urban and industrial areas such as Zagreb, Rijeka and Sisak and in the town of Slavonski Brod where the air quality is affected by pollution from an oil refinery in the nearby Bosnian town of Bosanski Brod.
The government launched a procedure to conclude treaties on the taxation of savings income from three tax havens: the Virgin Islands, the British Overseas Territory of Monserrat and the Island of Jersey.
Those agreements will enable the exchange of information on income from interest on savings in the said areas in a bid to prevent tax evasion, Deputy Finance Minister Boris Lalovac said.
The government decided to raise the salaries of the heads and deputy heads of three state agencies to the level of those intended for deputy or assistant ministers.
Deputy Prime Minister Branko Grcic said that the heads of the Agency for Investments and Competitiveness, the Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development and the HAMAG agency form SMEs assumed great responsibility in their work which was why their salaries should be increased.
(Hina)
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