Ministry of Economy (Croatia)

Ministry of Economy

Ministarstvo gospodarstva
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Croatia
Headquarters	Ulica Grada Vukovara 78, Zagreb, Croatia 45°47′59″N 15°58′38″E / 45.799747°N 15.977114°ECoordinates: 45°47′59″N 15°58′38″E / 45.799747°N 15.977114°E
Employees	362 (2015)[1]
Annual budget	[2] HRK 1.567 billion (2015)[3]
Minister responsible	Tomislav Panenić
Website	www.mingorp.hr

The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo gospodarstva) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of the development of the economy, and conducting administrative and other tasks related to:

• industry, except food and tobacco industry, shipbuilding, energy, mining, trade, cooperatives, other than agricultural, small and medium businesses, trade, trade policy, and policy to protect domestic production; economic cooperation with foreign countries,
• involvement in European economic integration, the harmonization of activities in conjunction with the Croatian membership in the World Trade Organization and participation in multilateral trade negotiations in the framework of this organization,
• promotion of exports and foreign investment, the establishment and operation of free zones, systematic stimulation of entrepreneurship, state of market, supplies and prices, consumer protection, strategic stockpiles, the privatization of shares and stakes in the state owned companies, restructuring and rehabilitation of legal entities,
• safety at work.

List of ministers

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Ivan Čermak		HDZ	20 May 1993	12 October 1993	145
Nadan Vidošević		HDZ	12 October 1993	18 September 1995	706
Zlatko Mateša		HDZ	18 September 1995	7 November 1995	50
Davor Štern		HDZ	7 November 1995	14 April 1997	524
Nenad Porges		HDZ	14 April 1997	27 January 2000	1,018
Goranko Fižulić		HSLS	27 January 2000	21 March 2002	784
Hrvoje Vojković		HSLS	21 March 2002	30 July 2002	131
Ljubo Jurčić		Ind.	30 July 2002	23 December 2003	511
Branko Vukelić		HDZ	23 December 2003	12 January 2008	1,481
Damir Polančec		HDZ	12 January 2008	30 October 2009	657
Đuro Popijač		Ind.	19 November 2009	23 December 2011	764
Radimir Čačić		HNS-LD	23 December 2011	14 November 2012	327
Tamara Obradović-Mazal (acting)		Ind.	14 November 2012	16 November 2012	2
Ivan Vrdoljak		HNS-LD	16 November 2012	22 January 2016	1,162
Tomislav Panenić		Most	22 January 2016	Incumbent	25

Origins

The Ministry of Economy was not included as such in the first four Croatian Governments. The Cabinet of Stjepan Mesić and the Cabinet of Josip Manolić included the minister for social planning (Croatian: društveno planiranje; post held by Stjepan Zdunić) and the minister of energy and industry (Croatian: energetika i industrija; Božo Udovičić). In the Cabinet of Franjo Gregurić, the former minister became the minister of economic development (Croatian: gospodarski razvitak), and there was also a minister of trade (Croatian: trgovina; Petar Kriste, Branko Mikša). The Cabinet of Hrvoje Šarinić in turn included the minister of industry, shipbuilding and energy (Croatian: industrija, brodogradnja i energetika; Franjo Kajfež) and the minister of tourism and trade (Croatian: turizam i trgovina; Branko Mikša).

In the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša, the prime minister also talked of renaming the ministry of economy back into the ministry of industry and energy.^[4]

References

1. Blažević, Robert (2015): Upravna znanost, p. 284. ISBN 9789538034039
   "...(on day 19. February 2015)."
2. http://www.mfin.hr/hr/drzavni-proracun-2014-godina
3. http://www.mfin.hr/hr/drzavni-proracun-2015-godina
4. "Žic-Fuchs ministrica znanosti, Đurkić ministar poljoprivrede". Vjesnik (in Croatian). 23 February 1999. Retrieved 17 December 2010. Također, razmišlja se i o tome da sadašnje Ministarstvo gospodarstva preraste u Ministarstvo industrije, energetike, a možda i turizma.

External links

• Official website (Croatian)