European sustainable development rural actor database
- Language:
- Croatian
- Currency:
-
Kuna
- Area:
- 56,510.00
- Population:
- 4.49
- Density:
- 80.00
- GIP:
- 37
- GIP per cap.:
- 8,278.00
- Political regime:
- Republic
- Head of State:
- President of the Republic, M. Stjepan Mesic (center-left Party – SDP)
- Head of governement:
- Prime Minister, M. Ivo Sanader (center-right Party - HDZ)
- Eutropean Union Membership:
- Adhesion envisaged in 2011
- National anthem:
- Our beautiful fatherland
Administrative organization
Form of State: unitary Republic.
Interesting ministries:
- Ministry of Agriculture, the waters and forests. Minister: M. Bozidar Pankretic. Few reference to rural development.
- Ministry of the environment, territory development and construction. Minister: Mrs. Marina Matulovic Dropulic. Some references to sustainable development linked with some actions of the European Union.
Administrative units
- 3 Economic regions
- 21 Comitats
Competences :
- Secondary education and academic
- Health
- Town planning and regional territorial development
- Economic animation
- Transports and their infrastructure
- The development of the medical, social and cultural regional networks
546 Municipalities
Competences :
- Electoral functions
- Maintenance of the roadway system and accommodation
- Town planning and local territorial development
- Social action
- Cultural action
- Junior forms
- Elementary medical assistance
- Civil protection
- Consumer protection
- Environmental protection
Total public expenditure: € 14.6 billions = 39.3% GDP.
Sub-national public expenditure: € 2.2 billion = 6% GDP = 15% total public expenditure.
Rural life
Utilized agricultural area: unavailable data.
Rural population: unavailable data.
Labour force in agriculture: unavailable data.
Unemployment rate by degree of urbanisation:
- Densely populated areas: unavailable data.
- Intermediate areas: unavailable data.
- Thinly populated areas: unavailable data.
Employment rate by degree of urbanisation:
- Densely populated areas: unavailable data.
- Intermediate areas: unavailable data.
- Thinly populated areas: unavailable data.
Youth unemployment ratio by degree of urbanisation:
- Densely populated areas: unavailable data.
- Intermediate areas: unavailable data.
- Thinly populated areas: unavailable data.
- Total: unavailable data.
Share of organic area in total utilised agricultural area: unavailable data.
Sustainability
In 2004 Croatia integrated the environmental field into its national programme for the introduction and implementation of Community legislation..
Environmental protection expenditure in the public sector: unavailable data.
Government expenditure on environment protection, in % of GDP: unavailable data.
Government expenditure on environment protection, in % of total government expenditure: unavailable data.
Area protected under the Habitats Directive as a percentage of total area: unavailable data.