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General Information for Croatia
Geo-political:
Capital City: Zagreb. 45° 48.00′ N, 016° 00.00′ E
Nationality: (noun) Croat(s), Croatian(s), (adjective) Croatian.(note) the French designation of "Croate" to Croatian mercenaries in the 17th century eventually became "Cravate" and later came to be applied to the soldiers' scarves - the cravat; Croatia celebrates Cravat Day every 18 October.
Population: 4,227,746 (July 2020).
Communications:
International Direct Dial Code: 385.
Number of Internal Airports: 69 (2013).
Major Languages Spoken: Croatian 95.6% (official), Serbian 1.2% and others 3% (including Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Albanian).
Economy:
Currency: 1 Croatian Kuna (HRK) of 100 Lipas.
Exchange Rates:  (as of November 2020)
USD 1.00 = HRK 6.50
HRK 1.00 = USD 0.15
Exchange rates under licence from XE.com
Main Industries: Chemicals, plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron, rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum, petroleum refining, food, beverages and tourism.
Agricultural Products: Arable crops, wheat, corn, barley, sugar beet, sunflower, rapeseed, alfalfa, clover, vegetables, potatoes, cabbage, onion, tomato, pepper, fruits, apples, plum, mandarins, olives, grapes, livestock, cattle, cows, pigs and dairy products.
Imports: Machinery, transport, electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels, lubricants and foodstuffs.
Exports: Transport equipment, machinery, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs and fuels.
Commodities: Crude: Production 14,000 bbl/d. Imports 55,400 bbl/d. Reserves 71,000,000 bbl. Products: Production 74,620 bbl/d. Exports 40,530 bbl/d. Imports 35,530 bbl/d. LNG: Production 1,048,000,000 cu.m.. Exports 172,700,000 cu.m.. Imports 1,841,000,000 cu.m.. Reserves 24,920,000,000 cu.m..
Environment:
Territorial Sea: 12 n.m.
Continental Shelf: Continental Shelf: 200 m.
Coastline Extent: 5,835 km. (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km).
Climate: Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast.
Natural Resources: Oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt and hydropower.
Natural Hazards: Destructive earthquakes.
Terrain: Geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands.
CHARTS:  National charts and nautical publications available from the Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia. www.hhi.hr
DOCUMENTS:  Copies of Bunker Convention/Insurance for Bunker Pollution, International Anti-Fouling System Certificate and Wreck Removal Insurance/Financial Security should be submitted with the Notice of Arrival forms.
Also see `` Pre-Arrival Information''.
PRE-ARRIVAL INFORMATION:  Notice of Arrival forms, including Notice of Arrival, IMDG Reporting Form, Ballast Water Reporting Form, Notification of Ship-Generated Waste, ISPS Code Arrival Notification, Dangerous Goods Manifest and Notice of Arrival for Mandatory Expanded Inspection, shall be sent to the Harbour Master 48 hours prior to arrival in any Croatian port. Forms available from Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure at www.mppi.hr/default.aspx?id=603 (documents section on the nIS - nautical information service page).
Forms can be submitted via the Croatian Integrated Maritime Information System (cimis), available to registered users at cimis.pomorstvo.hr
River Information System:  The EuRIS platform is the result of a cooperation between 13 European countries. The system gathers national information and services in one user portal. Participating countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.
EuRIS provides skippers, vessel owners or logistic operators with relevant information for planning and undertaking voyages on main European waterways. Users can register a vessel and follow its route, receive messages when vessel passes certain points on the network and request information on vessels, voyages and cargo.
EuRIS presents all waterway and traffic related information on handy maps or in tables, with:
  1. a real-time traffic image
  2. position information of authorized vessels
  3. Notices to Skippers
  4. actual water levels, discharges, bridge clearance, water depth
  5. information about the fairways, bridges, locks, berths, terminals
  6. the operating times of locks and bridges
  7. voyage planner
  8. travel duration and expected arrival times.
Access to EuRIS is available at www.eurisportal.eu
Furthermore, details of national systems can also be found at the following websites:
Country Website
Austria www.doris.bmk.gv.at
Belgium www.visuris.be
voies-hydrauliques.wallonie.be
www.vts-scheldt.net
Bulgaria www.bulris.bg
Croatia vodniputovi.hr
Czech Republic www.lavdis.cz
France www.vnf.fr
Germany www.elwis.de
Hungary www.pannonris.hu
Netherlands www.vaarweginformatie.nl
Poland www.rzgw.szczecin.pl
Romania www.roris.ro
Serbia nts.risserbia.rs
Slovakia nts.slovris.sk
Switzerland www.port-of-switzerland.ch
www.elwis.de
Reporting:  Electronic reporting enables electronic data interchange for reporting purposes between vessels and competent authorities in inland navigation. The goal is to avoid multiple reporting of skippers to competent authorities and to limit the provision of the same data related to a voyage to different authorities and/or commercial parties, and thus to reduce the administrative workload for skippers and inland waterway managers.
International standards and procedures for the interchange of electronic messages are in force. Public authorities and other parties concerned (ship owners, skippers, shippers, terminals, ports) shall exchange data in conformity with these standards and rules.
Electronic reporting is supported in many countries, until recently mainly for supporting traffic management. EuRIS now enables the orderly sharing of information with both public and private parties (always with consent of the ship owner).
Various platforms are also available to waterway users to electronically fulfil reporting requirements of the authorities: 
  1. BICS: www.bics.nl Enables electronic reporting via the BICS application, widely applicable in the Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, on the Rhine and the Mosel.
  2. CEERIS: www.ceeris.eu Central & Eastern European Reporting Information System (CEERIS) covers most of the Danube and the Czech Elbe, enabling electronic reporting in the CEERIS partner countries Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.
  3. eRIBa: eriba-platform.be Allows users to report digitally more easily on all waterways in Flanders and on the Western Scheldt (including the Dutch side of the North Sea Port).
  4. VELI: www.vnf.fr/veli/Login.html Allows for reporting before commencing any journey on all French waterways.
Note:  In order to use CEERIS for reporting, either a successfully claimed vessel (privacy class 9 with valid ENI) or granted reporting rights for a vessel in EuRIS are required.
Inland ECDIS:  Making available reliable and up-to-date electronic charts which meet European standards. ECDIS contributes to the safety and efficiency of inland navigation and therefore the protection of the environment. Moreover, it reduces the workload of the skipper compared to traditional navigation and information methods.
Notices to Skippers:  To enable an automatic translation of the most important contents of messages in all languages of the participating countries, with a harmonised structure of data to enable integration of messages in the voyage planning systems. Also a standard for height of tide information will be made available. This information will be made available to the inland barge community, among other things by use of web applications.
POLLUTION:  Notification should be made to the nearest Harbours Master's office as the Spill Notification Point.
Dubrovnik. T: +358 (20) 418989. F: +358 (20) 418987.
Ploce. T: +358 (20) 679008. F: +358 (20) 679008.
Pula. T: +358 (52) 222867. F: +358 (52) 222037.
Rijeka. T: +358 (51) 214031. F: +358 (52) 211660.
Senj. T: +358 (51) 881301. F: +358 (51) 881301.
Sibenik. T: +358 (22) 217214.
Split. T: +358 (21) 355488. F: +358 (21) 361298.
Zadar. T: +358 (23) 254888. F: +358 (23) 254880.
REGULATIONS:  EU MRV:  The EU MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification) regulation entered into force on 1 July 2015, and it requires ship owners and operators to annually monitor, report and verify CO 2 emissions for vessels larger than 5,000 g.t. calling at any EU and EFTA (Norway and Iceland) port. Data collection takes place on a per voyage basis and started 1 January 2018.
The reported CO 2 emissions, together with additional data, are to be verified by independent certified bodies and sent to a central database managed by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The aggregated ship emission and efficiency data will be published by the EC by 30 June 2019 and then every consecutive year.
Ship owners and operators shall monitor the CO 2 emissions of their vessels per voyage conducted into, between and out of EU (and EFTA) ports. A voyage is defined as any movement of a ship that originates from, or terminates in, a port of call (EU port) and that serves the purpose of transporting passengers or cargo for commercial purposes.
HOLIDAYS:  1 January (New Year's Day); 6 January (Epiphany); Easter Sunday; Easter Monday; 1 May (Labour Day); 60 days post Easter (Corpus Christi); 22 June (Anti-fascist Struggle Day); 25 June (Statehood Day); 5 August (Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day); 15 August (Assumption of Mary) 8 October (Independence Day); 1 November (All Saint's Day); 25 December (Christmas Day); 26 December (Saint Stephen Day).
Variable Holidays:  Easter Sunday and Monday and Corpus Christi.