Central
State authorities are responsible for:
- Entry, movement, residence, and employment of aliens on the Croatian territory;
- State border protection;
- Asylum and refugee status (Ministry of Internal Affairs);
- Granting asylum;
- Granting subsidiary protection;
- Rejection the application if an applicant does not meet the conditions for asylum and subsidiary protection;
- Rejection an application if the conditions are met for exclusion;
- Rejection an manifestly unfounded applications;
- Rejection inadmissible asylum applications;
- Suspend the procedure;
- Border security;
- Irregular migration policies;
- Unaccompanied minors seeking asylum;
- Financial support to asylum seekers, refugees and persons under temporary protection;
- Harmonisation of Law on Aliens and Law on Asylum with EU acquis;
- Adoption of strategies and monitoring frameworks;
- Travel documents for crossing the state border;
- Storage of data of Croatian Visa Information System;
- Integration policies;
- Anti-discrimination laws.
Regional
Regional authorities can also exercises competencies of civil protection (see below, 18.), moreover
- Receive applications for international protection, temporary/permanent residence;
- Prepare reports and hand a person over to officers in charge of irregular migration for further proceedings;
- Conduct an interview with a foreigner in the police station to determine the person's identity, perform a security check, and conduct an informative interview
- Send application documents to the Ministry;
- Take fingerprints and photos of the applicants, provide them with information on the procedures, their rights and obligations, and issue the applicants' identity card.
Local
Local authorities:
- Perform reception and accommodation of aliens at local level;
- Receive applications for international protection;
- Conduct interviews for the purpose of receiving applications for international protection;
- Execute orders for forcibly deporting aliens and for this purpose provide preparation measures;
- Participate in the procedures of determining the identity of foreigners;
- Cooperate with units of the Ministry on Internal Affairs, other state authorities and legal persons for the purpose of performing the reception and accommodation of foreigners;
- In cooperation with humanitarian organisations, provide health care service for foreigners, monitor and undertake measures to improve the conditions of residence of aliens;
- Undertake measures to ensure the functioning of a single information and documentation system with regard to receiving and assisting data on foreigners and a single reporting system;
- Takes fingerprints and photos of the applicants, provide them with information on the procedures, their rights and obligations, and issue the applicants' identity card
- Reception Centers for Foreigners are managed by Mayors.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Central
Regional
Regional authorities - counties (županije)
Border Police Directorate, Transit Reception Centre for Foreigners, Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers
Local
- Local authorities (općine i gradovi)
Sources:
Law on Aliens (NN 130/11, 74/13, 69/17, 46/18)
iied.org, Local Governments and Migrant Crisis, 2016
Croatia, MIPEX, 2015
Law on International and Temporary Protection (Narodne Novine 130/11, 74/13, 69/17, 46/18)
Unofficial translation of the Decision promulgating Law on Aliens of 18 July 2007.
Regular procedure, Croatian Law Centre
Registration of the asylum application, Croatian Law Centre