This Law hereby regulates the general aims and necessary rules and conditions for carrying out all sorts of trade and wholesale activities in the domestic market, including the conditions for conducting foreign trade, import and export of goods and services and their related protection measures, trade restriction measures, protection of all participants in trade, working hours in trade activities, prohibitive barriers to trade, and several supervision and administrative measures. These provisions shall apply also to: planting materials (article 5), forest products (article 5); fish products, also if deriving from local or national fishing activities and/or aquaculture (economic fishing on the sea, freshwater fishing, fish farming products and other marine organisms); trade in production facilities of farmers' holdings or family farms (article 10); agricultural products in general (articles 5, 10 and 12); precious metals and goods; protected wild species (limitations, see article 53, paragraph 5). The text is divided into X main Chapters and 84 articles. The titles of Chapters are as follows: General provisions (I); Trading performance (II); Terms and conditions for trading (III); Terms and conditions for international trading (IV); Trading restrictions (V); Working hours in trading activities (VI); Dishonest trading (VII); Supervision and administrative measures (VIII); Penalty measures (IX); Transitional and final provisions (X). Key topic elaborated in these Chapters are: wholesale trade; retail; specific terms for trading and minimum technical conditions; exports and imports of goods and services, and their necessary conditions; specific conditions to be fulfilled by importation goods; intermediation activities in foreign trade; minor exports and imports and neighboring overseas traffic related provisions; measures to protect domestic production from over-importation; anti-dumping measures and techniques; compensation measures; licenses for export and import of goods; export and import certificate; several provisions and issues on foreign representatives in the Republic of Croatia; right and duties of domestic and foreign natural persons in relation to trade activities and obligations; different trading limitations (article 55); inspection duties, powers and obligations; offences and penalties. The following conditions must be fulfilled for the trade: minimum technical conditions to be met by the sales facilities, equipment and means; all general sanitary and health terms and conditions shall be in compliance with food regulations (to be met by sales facilities, equipment, utensils and persons directly engaged/dealing with such goods, which may affect human health); if the competent inspector establishes that there is a risk that, by the execution of a particular import, a security, human or animal health, nature or environment may be endangered, the imposition of a provisional prohibition on carrying out that work shall be elaborated; for the performance of international agreements, national security, life and health protection of humans, animals and plants and the protection of nature, environment and non-renewable natural resources of the Republic of Croatia, protection of public morals, supervision of exports and imports of cultural goods and cultural objects in accordance with special regulations and certain precious metals, certain goods can be exported and imported on the basis of a license; licenses for the export and import of goods shall be issued by the Ministry or by another body in accordance with special regulations.
Croatia · 2008-07-15