After the accession of Croatia to the European Union, Croatian businessmen and workers have a right to fundamental freedoms of the EU single market, i.e. fundamental freedoms to provide services and free movement of persons on the entire territory of the EU. In practice there is often question raised how to post a worker to…

According to the Act on ownership and other real rights, which entered into force on January 1st 1997, for formerly registered social ownership with the right to manage, i.e. to use and to dispose, if these registrations were carried out up to the day of entering into force the ZV, they are presumed to be…

The Republic of Croatia has approx. 3.200.000 ha of agricultural land – 65 % of that land is private property and 35% is public property. However, only 1 200 000 ha of that land is in use (approx. 1/3rd of overall agricultural land in Croatia), from which 1 000 000 ha in continental Croatia and…

A guardianship is in Croatia regulated by the Family Act, which defines it as a form of protection of underage persons without parental care, adults who are not capable to take care of themselves and those persons who, due to other reasons are not able to protect their rights and interests. Wards- people under guardianship…

Proprietary relations between spouses in Croatia are regulated by the Family Law Act. According to the provisions of the Family Law Act spouses can have a community of property and separate property. A community of property is such property acquired by working of spouses in the course of their marriage or it is a result…

As of 1st of July 2013 the term „importation“ from other member states of the European Union, has been replaced with the term „EU intra-Community acquisition“. Since the fiscal borders have been dissolved after the accession of Croatia to the European Union, the EU intra-Community acquisition is no longer under the authority of  thecustoms office,…

Forests and forestry land are specific natural resources and are therefore, specifically regulated. It is important to differentiate forests owned by the Republic of Croatia (75% of all forests in Croatia) and private forests.  Private forest can normally be sold as any other private property; however there are some limitations for their acquisition. According to…

Maritime domain is in general use, and a domain of special interest for the Republic of Croatia. It includes internal sea, territorial sea, the seabed and underground, parts of mainland intended for public use, and everything permanently connected to this part of mainland on or under the surface. The maritime domain is governed, maintained and…

Some types of land in the Republic of Croatia enjoy special protection, and therefore the purchase of real estates on such lands is under a special regime. In the first place, these are the argicultural lands and parts of nature with the special treatment. The agricultural lands represent property of particular interest for the Republic…

The fiduciary agreement, same as the mortgage, is one of the assurance instruments with which the creditor can seize property of the debtor, if the later doesn’t settle his debt on time. The main difference between the mortgage and the fiduciary agreement is that the mortgage debtor retains ownership of the property, while in the…

Building contract is actually a service contract whereby a contactor agrees to deliver building work according to the specific project within a certain deadline and a client agrees to pay a certain price in exchange. Each contract needs to include both subject and price. The subject of a building contract is a construction of certain…

Due to ever growing number of credit indebted citizens and those with threathening insolvency, the Croatian Government has adopted directives for introducing of a personal bankruptcy i.e. insolvency over the property of a consumer, as a completely new institute in croatian legal system. It regards the bankruptcy procedure over the property of consumers, natural persons…