Constitution

Texts

Constitution 1990

Constitution 1992

Constitution 2001 

Constitutional Laws

Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia in 2002 

Case Law of the Constitutional Court

Correction of Constitutional Court Decision 485-2001

Constitutional Court Decision 1010-2000

Constitutional Court Decision 261-2000

Constitutional Court decision and pronouncement on the return of confiscated property, 1999

Corte Costituzionale – Decisione 1078 – 2001

Decision of the Croatian Constitutional Court 2007

Decision no. 25/2017 of the Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the law on the free decision on the interruption of pregnancy

Decision no. 25/2017 of the Constitutional Court – Dissenting Opinion of Judge Miroslav Šumanović 

Religious Communities

National and International Agreements

Agreement on legal issues in 1996

Agreement on economic issues in 1999

Exchange of instruments of ratification of the Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Croatia

Agreement with the bishops’ conference on Radio and Television

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Croatia concerning religious assistance to the Catholic faithful, members of the Armed Forces and the Police of the Republic of Croatia

Religious assistance in prisons 2002

Agreement between Croatia and Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia

Agreement between the Croatian government and the Croatian and the Serbian Orthodox Church on issues of common interest

Agreement between the Croatian Government and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Croatia , Croatian Old Catholic Church and Orthodox

Agreement between the Croatian Government and the Evangelical Church (Pentecostal) , the Adventist Church and the Union of Baptist Churches

Agreement between the Croatian government, the Evangelical Church of Croatia and the Christian Reformed Church of Croatia on issues of common interest

Agreement between the Croatian Government and the Islamic Community in Croatia on issues of common interest

Agreement between the Croatian Government and the Union of Jewish Communities and the Jewish Community Bet Israel 2011

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Croatia about the collaboration in the educational and cultural

Agreement on teaching of religion in 1999

Agreement between the Government of Croatia and the Serbian Orthodox Church on common interests

Protocol between the Government and Croatian bishops on the registration modes of Catholic Church legal entities

Agreement between Croatia and the Croatian Islamic Community 2016 

Laws and decrees

Law on Associations 1997

Law on Associations 2001

Agreement between Croatia and Montenegro on the protection of minorities

Croatia’s Law on the protection of minorities

Law on the legal position of religious communities in 2002

Act on Foundations and Funds 1995

Croatian Government Decision of 23 December 2004: Law on religious freedom and issues of common interest

Holidays, memorials and weekdays law, 2002

Foreigners Act, 2011

Youth councils Act, 2014

Festivity Act 2011

Register of Associations Registration form

Tax status of non-profit legal persons 2015

Law on legal status of religious communities 2002

Law on legal status of religious communities updated to 2013

Law on Associations 2014

Regulation on the registration processin the Register of Associations and foreign Associations 2015 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Agreement on the implementation of the financial obligations of the Republic of Croatia towards the Catholic Church, 1999

Order containing the regulation of the registration into the register of religious denominations of the Republic of Croatia

Regulation on the Establishment of the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities 2013

Regulation amending the Institution of the office and the Commission for the relations with religious 2013 

Statutes and Internal Rules

Statute of the Union of Baptist Churches in Croatia

Amendments to the Statute of the Baptist Union in Croatia

Statute Croatian Bishops’ Conference

Statute of the Full Gospel Christian Church

The Constitution of the Evangelical Church in Croatia

Statute of the Pentecostal Evangelical Church in Croatia

Statute of the Pentecostal Church of Christ

Constitution of the Islamic community – Sarajevo – 1997 amended in 2006 

Case Law of Court of Human Rights and European Court Justice

ECHR Judgment on the Union of Churches Word of Life and others against Croatia

Law ratifying the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1997 

Bodies And Church Properties

Taxation

The Income Tax Act 2000

Protocol on the way the registration of legal persons of the Catholic Church 2002

Foundations statute and their corporate name 

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Croatian Law on Compensation of property confiscated at the time of the Yugoslav Communist government, 1997

Croatia’s Law on compensation for property confiscated during the Yugoslav communist regime in 1992

Nationalization act on the leased properties and building land 1958

Nationalization act on the leased properties and building land 1959

Law on compensation for confiscated property, during the Yugoslav communist regime in Croatia, 96 amended in 2002 and amending law annexed

Constitutional Court Decision on return goods, 1996

Amendments to the law on confiscated goods, 1999

Second amendments to the law on the restitution of confiscated property, 2002

Law on the return of property confiscated during the Jugoslav communist period, 2020 

Laws and decrees

Law on Land Registration 1996

Property Act and Other Real Rights 2014 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Ordinance on the accounting of religious denominations in Croatia

Regolamento sulle modifiche riguardanti l’organizzazione interna, e la gestione del territorio 2002 

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Pension insurance system, 2013, amended in 2015

Law on pension insurance 2015

Law on compulsory health insurance 2013 

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Conscientious Objection

Law on the exercise of the medical profession 2004

Law on Medical Practice 2003

Law on obstetrics 2008

Code of ethics for obstetricians, 2010

Amendments to the Law on Medical Practice 2008

Constitutional Court Decision No. 25-2017 on the law regulating pregnancy interruption

Dissenting Opinion of Judge Miroslav Šumanović about the CC Decision No. 25-2017

Law regulating the right to free birth 2009 

Religious Assistance

Law on Health Protection Official Gazette n. 121_2003

Law against discrimination 2008

Law on protection from discrimination 2012

Health care law, 2014

Amendments to the law on health care in 2014

Law on Croatian Register of Persons with Disabilities, 2001

Law on the activity of social assistance, 2012 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Regulation military chaplaincy

Opinion of the Ministry of Labor on the economic activity of members of an association 

Cemeteries

Law on cemeteries 1998

Funeral Services Act, 2015 

Measures

Law on the Protection of National Minorities 2013 

Emigration and Labour

Laws and decrees

Labour Law, 2014 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Laws and decrees

Act on textbooks for elementary and high school in 2010 

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal Code amended in 1998 to 2003

Criminal Code 2011

Criminal code 1997 as amended in 2011 abstract

Criminal code 2003 abstract

Criminal Code coordinated text 2003 

Laws and decrees

Law on the execution of prison sentences, 2013 abstract

Law on the execution of prison sentences, 2013

Law on public meetings 1999

Law on public meetings 2012 

Family

Laws and decrees

Family Law, 2003

Law on same-sex partnerships, 2014

Law on same-sex unions, 2003

Health measures to obtain the right to free decision on the interruption of pregnancy 1978

Law that regulates the interruption of pregnancy 2009 

Communication

Laws and decrees

Act to amend the media law, 2011

Media Act, 2004

Law on Electronic Media, Consolidated text in 2013 

Museums, Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage

Laws and decrees

Archives law 1997 as amended in 2015

Museums Act 2009

Law on cultural heritage protection and conservation 1999 as amended in 2015

Heritage Conservation Act in 2018

Law on Libraries 1997 

Administration Policies and Procedures

Laws and decrees

Right to public assembly law, 2012

Law on municipal services, 1995, amended in 2015

Issue of identity cards Act, 2002

Issue of identity cards Act ,2002, amended in 2015

Law on Administrative Procedure, 2010

Law on Access to Information 2013

Law on Personal Identification Number 2008