Air quality monitoring

First option: FREEDOM TO PROVIDE CROSS-BORDER SERVICES

If you are established in EU/EEA country, you have freedom to provide services on temporary and occasional basis, without obligation of establishment in Croatia and without a prior check. The following conditions must be fulfilled, which are the same as for the Freedom to establish option. An online declaration is sent directly to the competent authority at pisarnica@mingor.hr, along with a photo or a scan of the following documents (signed, without a stamp):

• proof of registered activity from the register of EU member state or evidence of the existence of reciprocity for states outside EU

• list of employees (at least 3) along with evidence of their professional qualifications – electronic employment records or evidence of work experience and diploma

• description of the employee’s work experience and a list of expert tasks in air quality monitoring in which the employee participated
• excerpt from the land registry or lease contract for the work premises with an excerpt from the land registry of the lessor
• certificate for air quality monitoring accreditation in line with the Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories or a reference laboratory certificate for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance, along with a list of reference measurement methods and other methods for which the procedure for proving equivalence with the reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring, for which the permit is being applied:
• The accreditation certificate is issued by the accreditation authority
• The reference laboratory certificate for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance for each of the measurement methods is issued by the reference laboratory
• if for a certain reference measurement method no reference laboratory exists in the Republic of Croatia, the original or notarised copy of a certificate issued by a reference laboratory for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance for the measurement methods in the European Union Member States shall be accepted. The certificate must be translated into the Croatian language by an authorised person.

Second option: FREEDOM TO ESTABLISH

If you are established in EU/EEA country, you as a physical or legal person have freedom to provide services on a permanent basis in Croatia, if you register an establishment in Croatia and submit the following documents, i.e. fulfil the following conditions:

• a legal person established in a Contracting party of the European Economic Area has a registered activity under which it has the permission to carry out tasks of air quality monitoring inside the state of its official registration
• a legal person established outside the European Union has a registered activity under which it has the permission to carry out tasks of air quality monitoring inside the state of its official registration as well as evidence of the existence of reciprocity
• a legal person is registered for performing air quality monitoring activities (for legal persons based in the Republic of Croatia)
• has at least three employees, at least one of them with a university degree in natural, technical or biotechnical sciences or of such a profession or with a university degree in sanitary engineering, field of biomedicine and health, with at least five years of work experience in air quality monitoring tasks
• has the required work premises including a laboratory for performing sample analysis, processing and presentation of measurement results and checking of measuring procedures and data collected through measurement and sampling, apart from those procedures whose very nature requires that they be performed in the open i.e. directly at the point of discharge of the waste gases
• has measuring equipment available for performing air quality monitoring activities, in line with the reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring and that it has been accredited in line with the Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories, for each reference measurement method separately, or that it possesses a certificate from the reference laboratory for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance for each reference measurement method separately
• if legal person uses other measurement methods for which reference methods are prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring, the legal person must be accredited in accordance with the requirement of Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories or have a certification of the reference laboratory for measurement and data quality assurance for each measurement method separately and have confirmation of the reference laboratory that tests of equivalence of other measurement methods with reference methods were carried out in accordance with European Commission standards.
• if legal person uses other methods of measurement for which no reference methods are prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring, the legal entity must be accredited according to the requirement of Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories for those methods.

Submit a photo or a scan of the following documents (signed, without a stamp) on pisarnica@mingor.hr:

• proof of registered activity from the register of EU member state or evidence of the existence of reciprocity for states outside EU

• list of employees (at least 3) along with evidence of their professional qualifications – electronic employment records or evidence of work experience and diploma

• description of the employee’s work experience and a list of expert tasks in air quality monitoring in which the employee participated

• excerpt from the land registry or lease contract for the work premises with an excerpt from the land registry of the lessor
• certificate for air quality monitoring accreditation in line with the Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories or a reference laboratory certificate for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance, along with a list of reference measurement methods and other methods for which the procedure for proving equivalence with the reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring, for which the permit is being applied:
• The accreditation certificate is issued by the accreditation authority
• The reference laboratory certificate for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance for each of the measurement methods is issued by the reference laboratory
• if for a certain reference measurement method no reference laboratory exists in the Republic of Croatia, the original or notarised copy of a certificate issued by a reference laboratory for measurement quality assurance and air quality data assurance for the measurement methods in the European Union Member States shall be accepted. The certificate must be translated into the Croatian language by an authorised person.

If EU/EEA nationals do not provide the required documents, a competent authority will check their data via the Internal Market Information System (IMI).

Fees

None

Competent authority and regulations

Ministry of Economy

Radnička cesta 80, 10 000 Zagreb

+385 1 3717 111

pisarnica@mingor.hr

Air Protection Act (OG 127/19 and 57/22)

Ordinance on air quality monitoring (OG 72/20)

Authorisation

The decision whereby a permit for activities of monitoring air quality is issued.

Deadline: 30 days

Legal remedies

An appeal may not be lodged against the decision; however, you may submit a complaint within 30 days to the competent administrative court:

• Administrative Court in Zagreb, Avenija Dubrovnik 6 i 8, 10000 Zagreb kontakt@uszg.pravosudje.hr
• Administrative Court in Rijeka, Barčićeva 3, 51000 Rijeka info@usri.pravosudje.hr
• Administrative Court in Osijek, Trg Ante Starčevića 7/II, 31000 Osijek

USOS-Pisarnica@usos.pravosudje.hr

• Administrative Court in Split, Put Supavla 1, 21000 Split Split@usst.pravosudje.hr

The legal remedy is an integral part of every decision.

Last updated on 6 November 2023