By the Constitution of Republic of Croatia, government is limited to constitutionally-guaranteed right to local and regional self-government. Local self-government units in Croatia are municipalities and towns (428 municipalities and 127 towns, not including City of Zagreb). Regional self-government units are counties. The City of Zagreb has a special status - it is a town and county in the same time.
Ministry responsible for system of local and regional self-government is Ministry of Administation and additional details can be found on its website. Most important legal act useful for understanding regional development issues are:
Related to financing of local and regional self-government units the relevant act as of 1 January 2018 is Act on financing local and regional self-government units (OG 127/17) which replaced the Act on financing local and regional self-government units (OG 117/93, 69/97*, 33/00, 73/00, 127/00*, 59/01, 107/01, 117/01, 150/02, 147/03, 132/06, 26/07, 73/08, 25/12, 147/14, 100/15 and 115/16 *amendments of this Act done within other legal acts). Additional information on tax reliefs and aids from State Budget for specific areas can be found in Act on Income Tax, Act on Profit Tax and Act on execution of State Budget for specific year. More information related to local and regional budgets are available at the website of the Ministry of Finance http://www.mfin.hr/hr/lokalni-proracuni and within Yearbook of Ministry of Finance http://www.mfin.hr/hr/godisnjaci-ministarstva (older English versions http://www.mfin.hr/en/annual-reports-of-ministry-of-finance) |
Source: Council of Europe, August 2015 http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?CL=ENG&NT=122
Source: Official Gazette, August 2015 - extract by author
Source: Ministry of Administration, August 2015.
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