Sigma Activities: Croatia

Sigma is supporting the reform efforts of Croatia in priority areas through its work on the following projects: 

Design of Reform

• Public Administration Reform: Bridging Assistance (June - December 2005)
• Support to the Task Force on Public Administration Reform (April - July 2003)
• Briefing of the PAR Team in Sigma (January - February 2003)

Financial Control and External Audit

• Peer Assistance to Public Internal Financial Control - PIFC (February - August 2008)
• Assistance to the Development of National Fund Systems and Procedures in relation to the Process of Accreditation of the SAPARD Agency (September 2005 - September 2006)
• Peer Review and Strategic Development Planning for the State Audit Office, Phase 2 (February - July 2003)
• Internal Audit Assistance to the Ministry of Finance (November 2002 – September 2003)
• Peer Review and Strategic Development Planning for the State Audit Office (January - August 2002)  

Legal Framework, Civil Service and Justice

• Public Administration Reform (July - December 2008)
• Public Administration Coordination and Assistance 2 (December 2006 - July 2008)
• Public Administration Coordination and Assistance (January - November 2006)
• Civil Service Reform – Bridging Assistance (May - December 2004)
• Assistance in Preparation of TOR for CARDS 2001 PAR project (“Support to Ministry of Justice, Administration & Local Self-government in ongoing Civil Service Reform and Development of Training System for Civil Servants”) (September - November 2001)

Policy-Making and Co-ordination

• Decentralisation and Services Delivery (December 2005 - January 2006)

Public Expenditure Management

• Assessment of the Debt Management System (September - December 2007)
• Peer Assistance to Ministry of Finance in Strategic Planning (August - November 2006)
• Support to Treasury Reform (September - December 2005)
• Fiscal Decentralisation Bridging Activities (March - December 2003)
• Public Debt Management Bridging Activities (March - December 2003)
• Assistance in Assessing Draft Budget Law (November - December 2002)

Public Procurement

• Advisory Assistance to the Croatian Procurement System (May - December 2008)
• Support in Developing Public Procurement Implementing Regulations (October 2007 - February 2008) 
• Support to the Development of the System for Concessions and PPPs (June 2007 - February 2008)
• Assistance in Drafting Primary Public Procurement Legislation (February - October 2007)
• Presentation of Concessions Peer Review and Follow-up Preparation (December 2006 - March 2007)
• Peer Review of Concessions Area (October - November 2006)
• Support in Developing New Primary Legislation in Public Procurement and Concessions (September - November 2006)
• Assistance to Public Procurement Review Commission & Public Procurement Office (May - December 2004)
• Developing Bridging Assistance to the Public Procurement System (September 2002 – June 2003)
• Comments on Public Procurement Law (February - March 2002)
• Assistance in Preparation of Project Fiches under CARDS 2002 (“Internal Audit and Public Procurement”) (March – April 2002)

Trade Policy

• Assistance in Drafting an e-Commerce Law (January - December 2003)
• Assistance to the Ministry of Economy (Steel Sector) (November - December 2002)
• Assistance to the Ministry of Economy on WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (Gats) (May-June 2002)

Further sources of information on Croatia, such as Sigma's Public Management Profile (2003), its geography, people, system of government, can be found by consulting the following sites:

• European Commission's country profile: Croatia
• EC Delegation to Croatia
• Relations of the EU with Croatia
• Presidency of the European Union
• Official websites in Croatia

You may also wish to visit the European Union website.