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Country Report on Conditions for Green and Sustainable Building Croatia Country Report Croatia May, 2014, Municipality of Dugopolje, IPA PP1 - Croatia Table of Content Chapter 1:....................................................................................................................................4 Public Administration Issues....................................................................................................4 1.1. Current situation and legal framework.............................................................................5 1.2. Best practices and SWOT analysis.....................................................................................8 1.3.Solutions and recommendation........................................................................................18 1.4. Conclusions........................................................................................................................23 Chapter 2:..................................................................................................................................25 Social Issues...............................................................................................................................25 2.1. Current situation................................................................................................................26 2.2. Best practices and SWOT analysis...................................................................................29 2.3. Solutions and recommendations.....................................................................................38 2.4. Conclusions........................................................................................................................39 Chapter 3:..................................................................................................................................40 Building Innovation Issues......................................................................................................40 3.1.Current situation................................................................................................................41 3.2. Best practices and SWOT analysis...................................................................................47 3.3. Solutions and recommendations.....................................................................................50 3.4. Conclusions........................................................................................................................51 APPENDIX 1............................................................................................................................52 APPENDIX 2............................................................................................................................53 May, 2014, Municipality of Dugopolje, IPA PP1 - Croatia BUILD SEE Addressing the divide between the EU indicators and their practical implementation in the green construction and eco-social re-qualification of residential areas in South East Europe regions Introduction (national specific issues) The Country report for Croatia will try to outline the main issues regarding institutional framework in the areas related to the BUILD SEE project mainly the urban planning and integrated territorial development. The frequent changes of the legal framework regulating this area and scatterdness of the regulations within several ministries hence several legal acts regulating the area, are identifies as the main obstacle to the coherent imple- mentation of the sustainable urban development principles. One of the main operative goals of this material was to provide an overview of the planning tools regulating by diverse laws and coordinated in different departments. This in many ways provides an important and updated knowledge to policy makers on the state of art in the relevant field. So far, on the national and regional level there is not existing knowledge on this issue and the lack of common development strategy is reflected in the huge amount of local plans devised by Ministry of physical planning, Ministry of regional development and Ministry of agriculture to name just the most important actors. Moreover, this national report has showed great overlapping of these tools regulating territorial development aspects. The methods used in the preparation of this report therefore rely heavily on the focus group discussions reg- ulated though the workgroups and extensive comparative document analysis of the relevant legal acts. The special attention is dedicated to the best examples in each area showing the possible path to follow in all three thematic groups outlined by the project. The Croatian public administration issues are therefore analyzed looking at the three main areas regulating territorial development - acts regulating land use planning, regional development and agricultural develop- ment. We have outlined the current situation and suggested the coordination of diverse tools regulating these areas. Social issues are questioned looking in detail on the lack of social housing initiatives, which followed the privatization of the housing social housing stock. This negative trend is counterbalanced with an example of a successful practice in socially incited housing. The case study of Novi Jelkovac is one of the few examples in the field of housing policies, which managed to, at least till the certain level, respond to the different social groups, promoting citizens participation. The last area built heavily on the deficits of the institutional framework and focused on the concepts of energy efficiency on different territorial scales in the urban planning and in the peri-urban areas in particular. May, 2014, Municipality of Dugopolje, IPA PP1 - Croatia Chapter 1: Public Administration Issues May, 2014, Municipality of Dugopolje, IPA PP1 - Croatia 1.1. Current situation and legal framework The main issues recognized in the Croatian system regarding the public administration competences in inte- grated territorial development is the complex and uncoordinated legal framework. With this material we try to summarize different laws regulating the same aspect, imposing the wide number of tools – local plans uncoor- dinated between themselves, often overlapping and unfamiliar outside of the specific sectorial groups. Howev- er these tools, will be the prime burden to the public administration and local budgets in the following period. 1. Draft of the Regional Development Law In the end of 2013.the Draft of the Regional Development Law was introduced to the public as an update to the former Regional Development Law enacted in 2009. The Regional Development Law determines the goals and principles of regional development management in the Republic of Croatia. It carries out the necessary plan- ning documents, appoints competent state entities and classifies development stages of different spatial units. The enactment of the new and complete Regional Development Law is announced for the beginning of 2014. Regional Development Law appoints strategic planning – as one of several principles of regional develop- ment politics - by the enactment and implementation of planning documents to enable more efficient planning and to coordinate the regional development politics. Therefore planning areas are constituted, but they are not a regional self-government unit – as in the case of 21 counties - nor are they legal entities. Newly designated planning areas are: - Central Croatia - Northwestern Croatia - Eastern Croatia - Central and South Adriatic (which includes Splitsko-Dalmatinska County and Dugopolje Municipal- ity) - North Adriatic and Lika. To realize a more efficient regional planning system, urban areas are constituted, besides the planning areas stated above. By the Regional Development Law urban areas include urban agglomerations (Zagreb, Split, Ri- jeka, Osijek) and other urban areas (local s elf-government units which have a population over 35.000, accord- ing to the last census). Planning documents of regional development politics are: May, 2014, Municipality of Dugopolje, IPA PP1 - Croatia -Regional development strategy of the Republic of Croatia, which determines the goals and priorities of region- al development of Croatia, as well as the coordination between state administration offices and other actors of regional development involved in the implementation of the Strategy -County development strategies and Development strategy of the City of Zagreb , which determines develop- ment goals and priorities for areas of 20 counties + Zagreb in Croatia with a special emphasis on large cities and cities with central county offices and their role in inciting development -Development strategies of urban areas, which determines development goals for newly formed urban ag- glomerations and other urban areas. An important tool to classify the heterogeneousity and regional differences of spatial units in Croatia is the de- velopment index, carried out by the Regional Development Law. The development index classifies administra- tive units of Croatia in comparison to the national average of the index using the income per capita, unemploy- ment rate, source income of the citizens of counties and/or municipalities, population trends and educational level as relevant criteria. For counties the classification is: - I. group: counties which have a development index below 75% of the national average - II. group: counties which have a development index from 75% to 100% of the national average - III. group: counties which have a development index from
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