This Law governs the Croatian standardization system, basic requirements for products, processes and services, the system of conformity assessment, the documents that must be produced among the products, the adoption of Regulations for the implementation of the prescribed rules, and the supervision over the technical and administration rules prescribed by these provisions. The requirements provided by this Law are aimed to: offer a sustainable and safe development of the Croatian market, eliminate the trading barriers (goods and services) with foreign countries and the activation of the international co-operation; provide protection of life and health, environmental protection and protection and conservation of other natural and man-made values; concrete consumer protection; official classification and uniformity certification for various products, processes and services and the rational exploitation of natural resources and energy; monitoring, registration and data collection related tasks and duties. The sectors treated by this Law are part of industry, energy, construction, mining, agriculture, transportation, and telecommunications activities; and issues provided are treating the interdependent resources and their control and management, and actions to be performed in order to protect human life and health, offer concrete environmental protection and rational exploitation of natural resources and energy. The institution aimed to execute the state supervision over the performance of requirements of state standards, certification, authorization and other issues on standardization stipulated by present Law is the State Standardization Institute. This Law is divided into X Chapters and 58 articles, including the offences and related penalties.
Croacia · 1996-06-28