Croatian legislation

In 2003, two key pieces of legislation were enacted regulating this area during a longstanding legal vacuum in the GMO area, a de facto moratorium was applied in the absence of any legal grounds. They are the Nature Protection Act (Official Gazette No. 162/2003) and the Food Act (Official Gazette No. 117/2003).

Mentioned here, are other Acts that regulate various areas from waist, transport, and agricultural production to science. Some of them clearly state their connection with the GMO issue but in others it is not so. Also not clearly stated, is the relation to these Acts neither in the "Umbrella law" as it is the Nature Protection Act or the new proposed GMO Act. At base level, this has created confusion with regulators on the subject of ‘the holding of ultimate responsibility’ for regulating in various different fields ( Annex 1.). For the purpose of stressing the fact that there is a need for clarification of inter-relations, listed here are all these Acts, although some of them are connected to GMOs but only indirectly.
Because there are numerous Acts which are directly or indirectly covering biotechnology and biosafety we have listed them here in their chronological appearance, but we have placed the by-laws under the ‘Act’ they belong to.