Croatia

The Legal Framework for Arbitration

General Information

  • UNCITRAL Model-Law based: Yes.

  • Legal Provisions: The Croatian Arbitration Act (“Zakon o Arbitraži”, Official Gazette Narodne Novine 88/2001 of 11 October 2001), in force since 19 October 2001. 

Arbitral Institutions

  • Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy

Multilateral Conventions

  • New York Convention: Yes (notification on succession 26 July 1993); reservations:

1. The Convention is applied in regard to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia only to those arbitral awards which were adopted after the coming of the Convention into effect.

2. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will apply the Convention on a reciprocal basis only to those arbitral awards which were adopted on the territory of the other State Party to the Convention.

3. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will apply the Convention [only] with respect to the disputes arising from the legal relations, contractual and non-contractual, which, according to its national legislation are considered as economic.

  • European Convention: Yes (ratification/accession: 26 July 1993).

  • ICSID Convention: Yes (ratification/accession: 22 September 1998).

  • Energy Charter Treaty: Yes (ratification/accession: 31 October 1997); reservations: none.

 

Last updated February 2019