Question 1

Administrative procedure: How to initiate it?

Accepted Answer

Administrative proceedings shall be initiated at the request of a Party or ex officio. The party may submit the request for initiation directly to the public legal body in writing or orally to the minutes, and may send it by post or by electronic means. The procedure is initiated ex officio when required by law or is necessary in order to protect the public interest. Administrative proceedings may also be initiated by a public legal body by public disclosure where the parties are unknown or such a method of initiating proceedings is prescribed by law.

Question 2

Administrative contract: What is it?

Accepted Answer

An administrative contract shall be concluded between a public law body and a party in order to exercise the rights and obligations laid down in the decision governing the administrative matter. Such a contract may be concluded only if explicitly required by a special law (e.g. General tax Act — the proposal for the conclusion of an administrative contract is submitted by the taxpayer to the tax authority in order to conclude an administrative contract and to settle the tax debt due).

Question 3

What should I do in case of an administrative dispute?

Accepted Answer

If a party considers that its rights and legal interests have been violated by an individual decision, an administrative dispute may be initiated by the act of a public legal body or by failure to take an individual decision or act of a public legal body within the prescribed time limit or by concluding, terminating or enforcing an administrative contract. The same is considered to have been initiated on the day of the submission of the action to the competent court. The action shall be brought before the Court within 30 days of the notification of the contested individual decision or decision on the opposition to the contested action.

Question 4

Family pension new law: what do you need to know?

Accepted Answer

Family members of the deceased insured are entitled to a family pension if the insured, after which they are entitled to a pension, completed at least 5 years of service or at least 10 years of pensionable service, fulfilled the conditions of length of pensionable service for acquiring a disability pension, or was a beneficiary of an old-age, early retirement or disability pension or was a beneficiary of the right to professional rehabilitation.

Question 5

Family pension a new law: injury or occupational illness?

Accepted Answer

If the death of the insured person or insured person is due to occupational injury or occupational illness, family members shall be entitled to a family pension regardless of the length of the pensionable service of the insured person. The right to a family pension may be acquired at the earliest from the first day of the following month from the month in which the beneficiary died, and the procedure shall be initiated by submitting an application to the district service or regional office of the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance according to the place of residence or place of residence of the applicant.

Question 6

Health insurance and disability and physical damage rights: criteria?

Accepted Answer

The right to compensation for physical damage can be exercised by the insured person who has been found to have a physical damage of at least 30% as a result of an occupational injury or occupational disease. Compensation for physical damage is determined depending on the percentage of physical damage, in an appropriate percentage of the base.

Question 7

Health insurance and disability and physical damage rights: what are my rights?

Accepted Answer

The right of persons with disabilities and children with developmental difficulties in the healthcare system are the right to compulsory health insurance, supplementary health insurance depending on the level of physical damage, the right to health care and physical therapy in a house based on immobility or severe mobility, the right to free day accommodation during hospital treatment and the daily accommodation of one parent with child with developmental difficulties, orthopaedic and other aids, the right to medicines and the right to financial benefits.

Question 8

Patent and design protection, intellectual property and licensing: how and in what way?

Accepted Answer

Patent protection proceedings begin with the filing of an application (P – 1 form) to the State Intellectual property Office. The patent application contains a request for patent recognition, a description of invention, patent applications, summaries, and drawings if they are invoked in the description of the invention. The process of protection of industrial design is initiated by submitting an appropriate application (D1 and D2 forms) which can be individual or multiple.

Question 9

Patent and design protection, intellectual property and licensing: transfer of rights?

Accepted Answer

When transferring the rights of different forms of intellectual property, a licence contract is concluded whereby the licensor commits to cede to the licensee, in whole or in part, the right to exploit the invention, knowledge and experience, the mark, the cause or the model, and the licensee commits to pay it for that particular fee. For a licence agreement to be valid, it must be concluded in writing.

Question 10

Protection of trademarks and designs: What steps to take?

Accepted Answer

Any sign seeking trade mark protection shall be applied for by a separate application, the integral part of which is the list of goods and/or services to which the sign refers, and which must be drawn up according to the International Classification of goods and services for the purposes of trade mark registration. The application for a trade mark to the State Intellectual property Office is filed on the Z – 1 form, accompanied by a mandatory proof of payment of the prescribed administrative fees and fees of the examination costs.

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