Parliamentarians from the Green-Left Bloc said on Tuesday that their main focus during the autumn session of the Sabor will be amending the Reconstruction Act and the Labour Act and regulating debt collecting agencies.

We will focus on six topics in particular, primarily on amendments to the Reconstruction Act and facilitating the status of citizens while dealing with financial institutions, which includes regulating debt collecting agencies.

Topics also refer to preventing the devastation of the coastline, strengthening the status of family farms and amendments to the Labour Act and the Civil Protection Act, caucus leader Sandra Bencic said.

With reference to the Reconstruction Act, the Green-Left Bloc advocates that one institution should be responsible for the entire reconstruction process and that structural reconstruction of buildings be conducted pursuant to the law and not individual demands by owners and co-owners.

She added that reconstruction priorities should be determined and that local government should be allowed to prepare project documents for entire blocks, including energy renewal, which would lower the price and increase the interest of companies.

The Bloc announced that it will advocate strengthening the status of citizens with regard to contracts with financial institutions, de-stimulating banks from selling their receivables to debt collecting agencies, and regulating these agencies.

The caucus announced that it will endeavor to prevent the future devastation of the coastline.

MP Vilim Matula said that the Bloc will advocate for small family farms to facilitate acquiring land and obtaining EU grants, while MP Ursa Raukar-Gamulin said they would advocate strengthening workers’ rights with amendments to the Labour Act.

“We ask that open-ended working contracts be the norm,” said Raukar-Gamulin.

MP Ivana Kekin said they would also advocate the establishment of an emergency medical helicopter service.