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L EX LOCALIS - J OURNAL OF L OCAL S ELF -G OVERNMENT D. Senčur Peček, S. Laleta & S. Kraljić: Labour Law Implications of Outsourcing in Public Sector 721 36 Project Plan of the Croatian Government on a long-term reform measures of fiscal consolidation 2014-2016 (December 2013). https://vlada.gov.hr/UserDocsImages//Sjednice/Arhiva//134.%20-1.pdf 6.12.2016. It was presented at the Conference “Models of efficient management of ancillary activities in public administration – chances for a public sector and economy. 37 The reform should have comprised of six types of activities in the public sector (cleaning, maintaining, laundry and ironing, food and drink processing, transport and protection). The planned measures would have included 2.300 budgetary users, with 26.500 employed persons. The annual budgetary costs of these activities (services) amount to 3.4 billion Croatian kuna (HRK). 38 The referendum initiative was signed by 624.000 citizens and was forwarded to the Parliamentary procedure. 39 Project Plan, slide 26. 40 Ex vice-prime minister Milanka Opačić emphasised that both decisions aimed at reducing the number of civil servants and clerks, in both sectors, and rationalising the business using external services. https://vlada.gov.hr/vijesti/sjednica-vlade-zabrana-novog- zaposljavanja-u-tijelima-drzavne-uprave-strucnim-sluzbama-uredima-te-javnim- sluzbama/14878, 5 December 2016 41 Decision prohibiting new employment of civil servants and clerks in public services, OG 114/14 and 32/15 42 Decision prohibiting new employment of civil servants and clerks in the bodies of state administration and professional services and offices of the Government of the Republic of Croatia (OG 70/16) and Decision prohibiting new employment of civil servants and clerks in public services (OG 70/16). 43 Similar conditions are prescribed for the outsourcing in the bodies of state administration (bodies of state administration and professional services and offices of the Government of the Republic of Croatia). 44 According to the explanation of the Decision, the prohibition of the new employment of ancillary staff, besides the natural outflow of workers by pensioning, should by the end of 2015 reduce the number of employed in ancillary services in governmental and public sector for cca 2.500 persons, and gain savings of cca 10 million Kuna’s. Milanka Opačić, Uštede na pomoćnom osoblju, Sindikalni list, XIX, Dec 2014, 68, p 11 http://www.sdlsn.hr/upload/File/Sindikalni%20list/SLbroj68.pdf , 7.12.2016. 45 OG No. 92/2005, 140/2005, 142/2006, 77/2007, 107/2007, 27/2008, 34/2011, 49/2011, 150/2011, 34/2012, 38/2013, 37/2013, 1/2015, 138/2015. 46 The Constitutional Court of the RC, U-II-7650/2014, 20 April 2016. 47 See Materials »Funkcijska analiza subjektov javnega sektorja, Ministrstvo za javno upravo, 19. november 2015«, page 71; available at http://www.mju.gov.si/fileadmin/mju.gov.si/pageuploads/SOJ/Funkcijska_analiza/Funkcijs ka_analiza_-_Metodolosko_porocilo_fin.pdf 48 See http://www.enarocanje.si/ 49 OJ L No. 94 of 28 March 2014, p. 65. 50 OJ L No. 94 of 28 March 2014, p. 243. 51 Official Gazette of the RS, No. 91/2015. 52 OG 120/16. 53 See EU public procurement framework – ETUC position, Brussels, 06-07/03/2012, available at https://www.etuc.org/documents/eu-public-procurement-framework- %E2%80%93-etuc-position#.WHiXOfnhCUk.