# Croatia

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Croatia
- **ISO code**: HR
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Southern Europe

## In brief

Croatia has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; national AI plan in preparation/adopted; authority designation in progress. Regulators include Središnji državni ured za razvoj digitalnog društva, Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka (AZOP). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Croatia applies the EU AI Act; the Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society prepared a National Plan for the Development of AI, and the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP) is the data-protection authority. AI Act authority designation is in progress.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; national AI plan in preparation/adopted; authority designation in progress.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National Plan for the Development of AI.

## Regulators

- Središnji državni ured za razvoj digitalnog društva — Digital society and AI policy — https://rdd.gov.hr/
- Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka (AZOP) — Data-protection authority — https://azop.hr/

## How to use this profile

- Start from the EU AI Act record for obligations; use this page for the national authorities, penalties and strategy.
- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Check national data-protection, employment and consumer law that applies to AI systems regardless of the AI Act.

## Official sources

- Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society — Government of Croatia — https://rdd.gov.hr/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Nacionalni plan razvoja umjetne inteligencije** — National strategy, Proposed, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/croatia-national-plan-for-ai-development
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/croatia-national-plan-for-ai-development.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/croatia
- **Official source**: https://rdd.gov.hr/
- **Source document**: Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society
- **Published by**: Government of Croatia
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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