Ostalo
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v12i1.21
Pre-Accession Economic Program 2005-2007. Social Policy
Vlada Republike Hrvatske
Sažetak
In October 2004, the Government of the Republic of Croatia adopted the Pre-Accession Economic program 2005-2007. That document analyses the economic policy in various areas, identifies key problems and future reform steps in the next two years i.e. within the process of accession to the European Union. A part of the program is dedicated to social policy, analysing the areas of employment, work safety, pension system, child allowance, social protection, protection of children and families, education and science.Only those parts of the program that are focused on social policy shall be published here. Three important reasons led to this publication. Primarily, the program contains a series of concise information on individual systems that can be useful to a wider circle of interested readers. Apart from that, this document was adopted without any public discussion, and therefore it is important to learn about the manner of analysis and the views of the proper state institutions on future changes in individual systems. On the other hand, in many cases only the problems and guidelines of future reforms were outlined. Those will have to be made more concrete, which will certainly require the involvement of a wider circle of participants.The implementation of the active employment policy measures was pointed out as the most important problem in the sphere of employment, and great hopes were set on the National Action Employment Plan that was adopted in 2004 and that was, for the first time, adjusted to the European Employment Strategy. Within the sphere of work safety, the Croatian legislature will have to continue to adjust to the EU guidelines, and considerable means will have to be invested in their implementation. The pension system reform has already been implemented, and future reforms will relate to further financial stabilisation of the system, promotion of voluntary pension saving, the issue of paying back the ʻdebtʼ to pensioners and the adjustment in the sphere of equal treatment of men and women. The data on poverty are being analysed within the social protection system, and the intentions of further reform of the system in accordance with the adopted reform strategy are analysed. The chapters on the protection of children and family, and on the implementation of the anti-discriminatory stipulations mainly describe legal and political measures that have already been taken. Key problems were also identified in the health protection system (primarily the issue of financial sustainability of the system), as well as future reforms, such as better resource management in the health system and the adjustment with the EU guidelines in the sphere of public health. Finally, within the scientific system, current reforms in accordance with the Bologna declaration are described, while in the sphere of education the main issue is the reform in the area of learning foreign languages.A part of the Pre-Accession Economic Program 2005-2007 published here is identical to the original, except for the linguistic and editorial adjustment for the purposes of the publication in a journal.
Ključne riječi
economic program; social policy; the EU accession; Croatia; employment; work safety; pensions system; child allowance; social protection; protection of children and families; health protection; science and education
Hrčak ID:
30211
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.1.2005.
Posjeta: 2.190 *