In Croatian legislation, the court register is primarily governed by a separate law: the Court Register Act and numerous other regulations and by-laws. Since its adoption in 1995, the Court Register Act has been amended nine times, and the tenth amendment is under way as the new Draft Act is in the public consultations procedure on the e-Savjetovanja web page until December 30, 2018. With these amendments, solutions have been incorporated into the act where entry into the register has been harmonized with the Acquis Communautaire and with other laws passed or amended after its adoption.

Despite the fact that a number of positive improvements have been made with the aim of optimizing the performance of the register, experience of business community representatives points to a number of elements in the operations of the court register that, to this day, do not function optimally in terms of speed and efficiency. This includes, for instance, complex registration and liquidation processes of companies and failure to respect proscribed deadlines when issuing official decisions, inconsistencies between practices of different court registers and officers, disconnect within the system in practice and other segments of performance of the register.

Therefore, with this position paper, AmCham seeks to address these issues and provide specific suggestions for improving the efficiency of the court register.

The position paper is available here.