National Development Strategy Croatia 2030: Roadmap for a Better Future

Required actions 
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Develop a single integrated business registration process with a single point of contact, introduce in-
teroperability of business registers and unique application form and integrate all business registries to 
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The list of reforms and investment presented in this chapter is to a large extent based on sectoral Policy notes. The list stems 
from in-depth discussions between World Bank teams and thematic/horizontal working groups organized by the MRDEUF. It is 
not exhaustive and requires further prioritization and modification by Croatian authorities once the NDS 2030 is prepared. The list 
aims to point the authorities to areas in utmost need for reform and severe investment gaps. 

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establish a single integrated registry of all business types (e.g. craft registry, agricultural establish-
ments – OPG, free professions).
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Map and review licenses/ex-ante authorizations required to start and conduct a business activity, au-
tomate licensing procedures and establish informational licensing platform. 
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Systematically update the list of regulated professions to be liberalized and scrutinize existing and 
planned requirements for services providers in all regulated professions. 
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Conduct a thorough review of the main practical shortcomings in the insolvency and liquidation pro-
cesses to identify areas for improvement. 
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Establish a functional regulatory framework for venture capital. 
Public administration and fiscal policy 
Broad areas for policy interventions
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Improve coordination and cooperation between different between different stakeholder in the process 
of public administration modernization.
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Assist local government viability by promoting mutual cooperation, building institutional links and 
formulating proposals for voluntary mergers as well as joint administration and/or shared services 
based on general and sectorial capacity benchmarks and targeted incentives.
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Consider incentives for voluntary amalgamations of local government units. 
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Continue with digitalization of public services with clear targets and deadlines. 
 
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Establish effective human resource management mechanisms, with particular attention to the estab-
lishment and strengthening of the senior civil service and its de-politicization.
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Pursue a comprehensive reform of the public sector wage-setting mechanism to improve its competi-
tiveness, equitability, links to worker productivity and affordability.
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Improve budget planning, implementation and monitoring at the central and local government level. 
 
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Promote open government approach and citizen-orientation of the public administration by enhancing 
legislation and services provision in areas of transparency, open data, access to information and citizen 
consultations.