Croatian regulations
• Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution – LRTAP (OG-IT 12/93)
• Act on Confirmation of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary
air Pollution on further reduction of sulphur emissions (OG-IT 17/98 and 3/99)
• Act on Confirmation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those
Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa
(UNCCD), (OG-IT 11/00)
• Act on Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutant (OG-IT 11/06)
• Act on Confirmation of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary
air Pollution on heavy metals (OG-IT 05/07)
• Act on Confirmation of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary
air Pollution on persistent organic pollutants (OG-IT 05/07)
• Act on Confirmation of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary
air Pollution concerning the control of emissions of nitrogen oxides or their transbundary
fluxes (OG-IT 10/07)
• Act on Confirmation of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary
air Pollution concerning the control of emissions of volatile organic compounds or their
transboundary fluxes (OG-IT 10/07)
• Act on Confirmation of the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on long-range transboundary
air Pollution to abate acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone (OG-IT 4/08)
• National Environmental Strategy (OG 46/02)
• National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP), (OG 46/02)
• Mineral resources management Strategy of the Republic Croatia (Draft, Ministry of
Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, March, 2008)
• The Law on Agriculture (OG 66/01, 83/02)
• Mining Act (OG 190/03)
• Agricultural land Act (OG 66/01, 87/02, 90/05)
• Draft Proposal of the Agricultural land Act (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural
Development, June, 2008)
• Environmental Protection Act (OG 82/94, 128/99, 110/07)
• Waste act (OG 178/04, 111/06, 60/08)
• Regulation on the establishment of the Institute for Soil (OG 100/01)
• Regulation on the establishment of the Croatian Environment Agency (OG 75/02)
• Regulation on limit values for pollutant emissions from stationary sources into the air
(OG 21/07).
• Regulation on environmental impact assessment of projects (OG 64/08)
• Regulation on the Environmental Information System (OG 68/08)
• Regulation on the procedure for establishing integrated environmental requirements (OG 114/08)
• Regulation on the prevention of major accidents involving dangerous substances (OG
114/08)
• Regulation on the manner of establishing environmental damage (OG 139/08)
• Ordinance on agricultural land protection of contamination on harmful substances (OG,
15/92)
• Ordinance on the mode of data collection, network of points, keeping the register,
conditions for using data on damage of forest ecosystems (OG 129/06)
• Ordinance on waste management (OG 23/07)
• Ordinance on the methods and conditions for the landfill of waste, categories and
operational requirements for waste landfills on the mode of waste disposal, categories and working conditions of landfills (OG 117/07)
• Ordinance on environmental pollutants register (OG 35/08)
• Ordinance on the register of installations in which dangerous substances have been
identified and on the register of reported major accidents (OG 113/08)
• Ordinance on the register of use permits establishing integrated environmental
requirements and of decisions on integrated environmental requirements for existing
installations (OG 113/08)
EU regulations and guidelines
• International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution
Effects on Forests (ICP Forests); The International Cooperative Programmes of the United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) www.icp-forests.org/, 1985.
• Council Regulation EEC/3528/86 of 17 November 1986 on the protection of the Community’s
forests against atmospheric pollution, OJ L 326 21/11/86 p. 2.
• Commission Regulation EEC/1696/87 of 10 June 1987 laying down certain detailed
rules for the implementation of Council Regulation EEC/3528/86 on the protection of the
Community’s forests against atmospheric pollution, OJ L 161 22/06/87 p. 1.
• Commission Regulation EEC/926/93 of 1 April 1993 amending Regulation EEC/1696/87
laying down certain detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation
EEC/3528/86 on the protection of the Community’s forests against atmospheric pollution,
OJ L 100 26/04/93 p. 1.
• Commission Regulation EC/1091/94 of 29 April 1994 laying down certain detailed rules
for the implementation of Council Regulation EEC/3528/86 on the protection of the
Community’s forests against atmospheric pollution, OJ L 125 18/05/94 p. 1.
• Directive EC 61/96 Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control – IPPC.
• Directive EC 82/96 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous
substances - SEVESO ll
• Commission Regulation EC 1390/97 of 18 July 1997 amending Regulation (EC) No 1091/94
laying down certain detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No
3528/86 on the protection of forests against atmospheric pollution. OJ L 190, 19/07/97
p.3.
• Commission Regulation EC 1545/99 of 14 July 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 1091/94
laying down certain detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No
3528/86 on the protection of forests against atmospheric pollution OJ L 180 , 15/07/1999
p. 9 – 32.
• Commission Regulation EC 1737/2006 of 7 November 2006 laying down detailed rules
for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2152/2003 of the European Parliament and
of the Council concerning monitoring of forests and environmental interactions in the
Community OJ L 334, 30.11.2006, p. 1–73.
• Regulation EC 166/2006 – EPRTR - European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register.
• COM (2006)231, Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European
Parliament, the European economic and social Committee and the Committee of the
regions, Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection.
• COM (2006) 232, Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council
establishing a framework for the protection of soil and amending Directive 2004/35/EC.
• SEC (2006)1165 Commission staff working document, Accompanying document to the
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the
European economic and social Committee and the Committee of the regions, Thematic
Strategy for Soil Protection, Summary of the impact assessment.
• SEC (2006)620 Commission staff working document, Document accompanying the
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the
European economic and social Committee and the Committee of the regions, Thematic
Strategy for Soil Protection, Impact assessment of the Thematic strategy on soil
protection.
Scientific and expert publications
• Croatian soil classification – originally Yugoslavian. Škorić et al, 1972, 1973, 1985.
• Programme for the Protection of Croatian Soils, Bašić et al, 1993.
• Database CORINE Land Cover 2000 (CLC2000).
• Regionalization of Croatian agriculture, Bašić et al, 1998-2001.
• Conditions and monitoring of soil contamination in Zagreb-county. Romić et al, 1999-
2004.
• Reports of the Technical Working Groups Established under the Thematic Strategy
for Soil Protection. Van-Camp, Bujarrabal, Gentile, Jones, Montanarella, Olazabal and
Selvaradjou, EUR 21319 EN/4, 872 pp. Office for Official Publications of the European
Communities, Luxembourg, 2004.
• Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund Work plan for period 2005-2008.
(Class: 024-04/05-01/002, No: 563-01-05-1), 2005.
• Soil monitoring on sites influenced by CPS Molve, Annual reports. Bašić et al, 1991-
2006.
• The Soil Monitoring Manual – first edition/working version, Project “Development of the
Croatian Soil Monitoring Programme with a Pilot Project” (LIFE05 TCY/CRO/000105);
Mesić, H., Čidić, Kisić, Mesić, M., Husnjak, Bašić, Romić, Zgorelec, Novak, Komesarović,
Klaić, Pernar, Vrbek, Bakšić, Pilaš, Durn, Mileusnić, Miko, Nakić. Croatian Environment
Agency, Zagreb, 2006.
• Guidelines for soil description, Fourth edition, Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO), Rome, 2006.
• WRB classification (IUSS Working Group World reference base for soil resources 2006.)
World Soil Resources Reports No. 103. FAO, Rome, 2006.
• Database on potentially contaminated and contaminated localities – GEOL, Croatian
Environment Agency, http://geol.azo.hr/AZO/geol.
• EIONET priority data flows on contaminates sites, (EEA EIONET 2007).
• Implementation summary of the pilot projects for monitoring of agricultural, forestry and
contaminated soil, Project “Development of the Croatian Soil Monitoring Programme with
a Pilot Project” (LIFE05 TCY/CRO/000105); Čidić, Kisić, Klaić, Komesarović, Mesić, H.,
Mesić, M., Pernar, Vuković. Croatian Environment Agency, Zagreb, 2008.