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Zagreb - The Croatian Parliament on Friday rejected by majority vote a proposal to amend the Civil Obligations Act, submitted by the SDP and the Green-Left Bloc, with which they requested that the method of debt calculation in that law be changed.
A total of 75 deputies voted against the opposition proposal and 34 were in favor.
Before the vote, SDP's Peđa Grbin called on the representatives to support their proposal to amend the law, saying that "there are people who will pay their debts all their lives and repay only the interest, never getting close to the principal amount."
He explained that according to the amendments to the law, half of every payment that a citizen has in the enforcement procedure to settle their debt would have to go towards the repayment of the principal.
The Parliament passed amendments to the Law on Companies, which aim to prevent those who do not pay their obligations to the state and workers from starting new businesses. Thus, the Tax Administration will be obliged, at the request of the registry court, to electronically submit a certificate on persons who have outstanding public liabilities.
The deputies also adopted several annual reports for the past year, including those on the work of the Croatian Regulatory Agency for Network Activities and the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency.