Craft

Craft is an independent and permanent performance of permitted economic activities by individuals with purpose of achieving income or profit through production, trade or service providing on the market. Enrollment of a new craft in the craft register, termination of a craft, and all status changes of a craft is carried out by decision making in administrative procedure and issuing a craft certificate.

Establishment of a craft:
Application for registration in the craft register is submitted by filling out the prescribed form – Application for registration in craft register, which contains information about the owner of the craft, about the craft itself and activities of the craft in accordance with the National classification of activities.

Crafts in the sense of the Act of crafts can be:

Free crafts for which professional qualification exam, masters exam or appropriate prefessional training is not required as a condition,
Related crafts for which professional qualification exam, appropriate high school diploma or masters exam is required as a condition,
Privileged crafts which the craftsman can perform only on the basis of priviledge, i.e permit issued by competent ministry, depending on activities of the craft.

The craft is established in the Administrative departmen for economy and agriculture of Virovitica-Podravina County, according to the place of the craft’s headquarter – Virovitica, Slatina, Orahovica, Pitomača.

Application submittion method:

By personally coming to the competent administrative body
Via e-mail
Through the online service e-Craft
Through the online service START

e-Craft – online application for craft registration

Electronic service e-Craft is provided by the Ministry of economy and sustainable development through the e-Citizen system, through which current or future craftsman can submit an application for the craft establisment, or enter status changes without personally coming to the competent registration body, and the craftsman is receiving his craft ceftificate, decision on opening a craft, and excerpt from the Craft Register through his personal user mailbox, after the procedure has been carried out.

START – online application for craft registration

Entreperneurs in Croatia can start their businesses through the digital service of the Republic of Croatia Government – START. It is an information system which enables quick and simple electronical business start-up.

Precondition: credential possesion, which means electronic identification card or FINA ceftificate.

EU citizens: they can use e-Citizen system in the Republic of Croatia by using their national credentials, i.e. means of confirming their electronical identity, recognized in the EU cross-border identification system.

Application for registration in Craft Register is submitting by filling in the prescribed form – Application for registration in Craft Register (2 copies). The application contains information about the owner of the craft, about the craft itself, name and numerical marks of the craft.

Along with application for registration, following documents and evidences are needed:

Copy of the craft owner’s identity card
Proffessional trainig certificate or certificate of passing masters exam (for related crafts) for owner or an expert if the owner himself does not meet the requirements of a related craft
Evidence of the right to use the premises – contract for the lease of a business space or excerpt from land register, consent from co/owner and a copy of premises co/owner’s identity card
Medical certificate on work capacity for jobs with special health work conditions
Partnership agreement if it is joint performace of a craft

Certificate of impunity and pronounced measures of the Court of Honor are obtained by official duty upon receiving the request.

The company is the name under which the craft is operating and it contains the name of the craft, mark of the craft, first and last name of the craftsman and headquarter of the craft. Name of the craft must be clearly different from the name of another craft based in the Republic of Croatia. Therefore it is necessary to determine the factual situation by checikng the website Portor.hr whether is there an active craft with identical name already.

When registering in the Craft Register, names and numerical marks of craft activities are entered according to the National classification of activities (NKD 2007 with explanations). National classification of activities is the classification of all economic activities of the Republic of Croatia.

Related crafts, degree and type of professional trainig required for their performance, list of privileged crafts and method od issuing privileges are prescribed by The Ordinance on conected and privileged crafts and the method of issuing privileges (NN no. 42/08, 114/11, 143/13).

If the craft is registered in the Craft Register without starting the work performance, the craftsman is obligated to start performing the craft within one year from the day of issuing the craft certificate. No later than 8 days before the start of the craft performance, the craftsman reports it on the form Application for registration in Craft Register. If the craftsman does not start the craft performance within one year or does not notify this Administrative department about beggining of the craft, the craft ceases by force of law. Before starting performing craft of trade, hospitality and transport activities, craftsman is obligated to request determination of minimum technical conditions for space and equipment for trade and hospitality activities, or determination of legaly perscribed conditions for the vehicle for transport activities. Only after reaching the decision on minimum techincal conditions, can the party (trader, caterer, carrier) start with performing activities.

TRADITIONAL AND ARTISTIC CRAFTS

Traditional crafts are crafts which require special knowledge of craft skills and performance of activities skills, which are performed with the majority of manual work and rely on the patterns of traditional culture in terms of production and work techniques, purpose and form. In this sense they can symbolize local, regional and nacional identity.

Artistic craft are crafts that are distinguished by products and services of high aesthetic value, design, artistic and other solutions with emphasized creativity and individuality of the craftsman – the artist.

Conditions and method of acquiring the status of traditional or artistic craft are prescribed by the Ordinance on traditional or artistic crafts (NN no. 112/07).

HOMECRAFT AND SECONDARY OCCUPATION

Homecraft is understood as production performed by individual person at home, if it meets requirements from regulations which regulates individual activity. In the application for registration into the records, individal must specify all of the products he will be making at home.

Secondary occupation is understood as performance of service activities at home by personal work, i.e. at customers home. Individual can perform services as a secoundary occupation if he meets professional qualification special condition , appropriate vocational educaation or passing a masters exam , if he is performing an activity from the list of related crafts.

Application submittion method:

By personally coming to the competent administrative body
Via e-mail

Along with application for registration, following documents and evidences are needed:

Copy of the craft owner’s identity card
Proffessional trainig certificate or certificate of passing masters exam (for related crafts)
Excerpt from the land register and owner’s consent for the facility where the homecraft or secondary occupation is located, which is the address of residence or domicile of individual who performs homecraft or secondary occupation
Proof of the right to use the premises – lease agreement or extract from the land register and consent of the owner
Proof of meeting special health conditions, if prescribed by special law
Confirmation that the taxpayer is not registered in the register of taxpayers based on self-employment, that he is not in the value added tax (PDV) system, and that he is not registered as an income tax payer based on self-employment in agriculture.

Administrative fee:

Administrative fee for registration in the Craft Register, issurance of autorization for performance of homecrafts, secoundary occupation is not charged.

Legal basis:

Law on crafts (NN no. 143/13, 127/19 i 41/20)
Rulebook on related and priviledged crafts and the method of issuing privileges (NN no. 42/08, 114/11 i 143/13)
Decision on the National Classification of Activities – NKD 2007.(NN no. 58/07 i 72/07)
Rulebook on traditional or artistic crafts (NN no. 112/07)

Forms:

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Datum zadnjeg ažuriranja: 12. prosinca 2022.