National integration
(2007)1
There are no targeted financial resources allocated to the implementation of the Convention
except for budgetary allocations by national, regional and local level of government for financing
the overall nature protection.
Within the framework of financing the programme activities of institutions, individual projects,
whose objectives correspond to those of the Convention, are also funded.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management allocates approximately € 1.5
million per year for indigenous breeds of domestic animals through the incentives for the
conservation of biodiversity.
The incentives for ecological agriculture are also paid amounting to € 400 per hectare.
Apart from the aforementioned, state budgetary funds are allocated for participating in
internationally funded projects among which are also those referring to the implementation of
individual programmes of the Convention.
Donors’ resources are only partly linked to the Convention.
The Environment and Energy Efficiency Fund (founded in 2004) started funding programmes
and projects in nature protection since 2005.
In 2005 the Fund allocated approximately HRK 2,700,000 and in 2006 approximately HRK
3,082,500 for funding projects from the field of the protection of biological and landscape
diversity.
Based on the Act on State Subsidies for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Official Gazette
87/02, 117/03 82/04, 12/05) and the Act on State Subsidies (Official Gazette 140/05) as
well as the Regulation on amendments of the regulation concerning the method and
conditions of the implementation of the production stimulation scheme, the income
support scheme and programme of conservation of Croatian native and protected breeds
(Official Gazette 124/03, 159/03, 20/04, 42/04, 54/04, 91/04, 150/04), incentives are
provided for autochthonous breeds carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management according to the selection of the Croatian Livestock Centre.
(2007)2
The integration of biological diversity has been achieved at the legislative level (it has been
integrated into strategic documents) in sectors of agriculture, forestry, hunting, fisheries,
environmental protection, nature protection, marine, etc.); however, in most of the sectors,
no operational mechanisms for implementation have been established.
1 Croatia (2007). Third National Report, Nature Protection Directorate,
Ministry of Culture, 7 February 2007, 195 pp.
2 Croatia (2007). Third National Report, Nature Protection Directorate,
Ministry of Culture, 7 February 2007, 195 pp.
1