This page has not been updated since mid-2018. Please check page of relevant Ministry and Official Gazette for latest information on regional development documents.
There is a quite wide legal framework that influence on regional development in which the large number of sectoral legal acts can be included.
However, this webpage focuses on acts related directly to regional development and defining specific areas and presents: |
Basic Croatian legal acts terminology
Some basic terms reader might come accross while searching for Croatian legal acts: Official Gazette / Official Journal = Narodne novine Constitution = Ustav Act = Zakon Act on Amendments of the Act... = Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama zakona... Ordinance = Pravilnik Decision = Odluka / Rješenje Regulation = Uredba Conclusion = Zaključak Article = Članak Paragraph = Stavak Ministry = Ministarstvo Government = Vlada Parliament = Sabor Searching for Croatian legal acts
Narodne novine (Official Gazette) All legal acts in the Republic of Croatiaare published in official journal called Narodne novine - http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/. For that reason, acts and other legislative documents are usually accompanied by mark "NN xx/yy" or "OG xx/yy". Letters xx refers to issue/number of Official Gazette, while yy stands for the year in which the act is published (in same cases long format for year yyyy is also used). Number and year are the basis for internal search engine visible on the homepage of official journal. If there is more than one number beside the title of legal act, one or more amendments have been adopted and it is necessary to take a look at all of them. Generally, amendments could be adopted even if it is not specifically mentioned. Therefore, it is useful to search for the legal act by keywords also. Content of Official Gazette is most cases published in Croatian only. Search engine CADIAL Search engine for legal acts available at http://www.digured.hr/ includes additional information in comparison to Official Gazette such as: - filtering whether relevant legal acts are in force or have expired, - links to amendments of each legal act, - links to subordinate legislation and other relevant information (even translation in same cases). Example: Exipired Act on Regional Development can be found here. Although more information is available, there are some delays in comparison to Official Gazette (update date is visible) and Official Gazette should always be considered as an official source. e-savjetovanja (e-consultation) Webportal providing user with possibility to see and comment legal acts prior to adoption, during the process of public consultations https://esavjetovanja.gov.hr/ECon/Dashboard Sessions of the Government of Republic of Croatia Prior to final adoption and publication, most of legal acts are discussed and adopted by Croatian Government therefore proposals of legal acts can be found within materials for Government sessions: https://vlada.gov.hr/sjednice-i-odluke/9 Example: Session No 134, points 10a i 10b refers to Regulation on Development Index and Decision on classification of local and regional self-government units according to the development level https://vlada.gov.hr/sjednice-i-odluke/134-sjednica-vlade-republike-hrvatske/1147 Difference from other sources is that in this material there is also an explanation of legal acts. However, some caution is necessary, since acts can be modified during sessions or during Parliament's procedures. General recommendation is to use this source as an additional one. Other sources Relevant legal acts are often accessible at the webpages of relevant ministry. In case of ministry responsible for regional developmet official website is https://razvoj.gov.hr There are also additional pages which publish unofficial revised version which is specially useful if several amendments were made. Example is: http://www.zakon.hr/ Any other serch engine can also be useful, asuming that user is careful when it comes to security and official status of suggestted pages. |