PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 29, 2001

The Croatian Parliament passed a new Law on Associations (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia, No. 88 of October 11, 2001), to replace a regressive 1997 Law on Associations. Among its positive features, the new Law:

• provides for voluntarily registration of associations;
• requires at least three natural or legal persons to establish an association;
• places on equal footing domestic and foreign persons as founders;
• streamlines the conditions for registration of foreign NGOs; and
• reduces the government’s intrusion in issues related to the internal government of an association.

ICNL provided extensive technical assistance to the Ministry of Justice’s working group in preparing the Law.

A more detailed account on the Law will appear in the next issue of IJNL.