Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure (Croatia)

The Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Croatia is a ministry in the Government of Croatia

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Role

The Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure deals with administrative

Administration (government)

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and other tasks related to the following:

Measures for the protection of the Adriatic sea
Adriatic Sea
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, islands and coastal regions and their sustainable development, including the establishment of an integrated system for the planning, management and financing of development projects, traffic, utilities and social infrastructure, analysis and management of marine resources, coastal land and other natural resources.
Control over business concessions for domestic and international marine, boating, road, rail, air, postal and telecommunications and river transport;
Strategy for development of all forms of transport ;
Protection of the sea from pollution from ships ;
Seaports, maritime domain and establishing maritime boundaries
Maritime boundary
Maritime boundary is a conceptual means of division of the water surface of the planet into maritime areas that are defined through surrounding physical geography or by human geography. As such it usually includes areas of exclusive national rights over the mineral and biological resources,...

, marine insurance and maritime agencies;
Ports on the inland waterways;
Inland freight-transportation centers;
Airports;
Vehicles other than those activities falling within the jurisdiction of other ministries;
Telecommunications and post;
Development of technical terms and conditions of use of facilities, technical equipment and installation of telecommunications and radio communications;
Enactment of legislation on concessions for services in public telecommunications;
Transmission and distribution of radio or TV programs;
International coordination of the use of radio frequencies, the use of radio frequencies;
Issuing licenses for radio stations to domestic and foreign entities; Inspections;
Navigational safety at sea, internal and international road traffic and road operations except from the scope of the Ministry of Interior , railway safety, safety of air navigation, safety of navigation on inland waterways, telecommunications and mail, internal and international postal and telecommunications traffic and monitoring of radio frequencies;
The organization of strategic infrastructure projects and investment programs of special importance for the Republic of Croatia;
Organization of major infrastructure investment projects in building construction and equipment of water management of transport infrastructure, except for reconstruction and maintenance, and other relevant major infrastructure works of significance for the sustainable development of Croatia, which are wholly or substantially financed by state funding, and align activities of other entities in the construction of such facilities and monitors and controls the investment, and performs professional tasks related to the initiation, coordination and monitoring of certain laws and regulations governing the development of the island and coastal regions.

The Ministry is also responsible for the maintenance of records and statistics concerning sea, transport and infrastructure, the information system and for the education and training of the Ministry’s officers.

Organization

The Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure has a total of 1127 staff (as of December 2009), working in the following departments:

Department	\|Staff
Cabinet of the Minister	Kabinet Ministra	14
Secretariat	Tajništvo	109
Public Relations Department	Samostalni odjel za odnose s javnošću	10
Internal Revision Service	Služba za unutarnju reviziju	8
Department for Financial Management, Internal Revision and Control	Samostalni odjel za financijsko upravljanje, unutarnji nadzor i kontrolu	4
Department for Investigation of aircraft accidents	Samostalni odjel za istraživanje ugrožavanja sigurnosti zrakoplova, nesreća i ozbiljnih nezgoda zrakoplova	4
Department for Investigation of Railway Accidents	Samostalni odjel za istraživanje željezničkih nesreća	3
Department for European Integration and Transport Policy	Samostalni odjel za europske integracije i prometnu politiku	13
Directorate for Maritime Policy	Uprava pomorskog prometa, pomorskog dobra i luka	52
Directorate for Inland Waterway Navigation	Uprava unutarnje plovidbe	17
Directorate for Seafaring and Inland Waterway Navigation Safety and Sea and River Protection	Uprava za sigurnost plovidbe, zaštitu mora i unutarnjih voda	557
Directorate for Island and Coastal Development	Uprava za otočni i priobalni razvoj	31
Directorate for Road Transport	Uprava cestovnog prometa	42
Railways Directorate	Uprava željezničkog prometa	42
Civil Aviation Authority	Uprava zračnog prometa	25
Directorate for Electronic Communications and Postal Service	Uprava elektroničkih komunikacija i pošte	30
Directorate for Transport Inspection	Uprava prometne inspekcije	96
Budget and Finance Directorate	Uprava za proračun i financije	48
Directorate for Strategic Infrastructural Objects	Uprava za strateške infrastrukturne objekte	22

State Secretaries

Capt. Mario Babić, State Secretary for Sea (Državni tajnik za more)
-, State Secretary for Transport (Državni tajnik za promet)
Željko Tufekčić, State Secretary for Budget and Finance (Državni tajnik za financije)
Ivica Perović, State Secretary for Transport Inspections (Državni tajnik za prometnu inspekciju)
Tomislav Mihotić, State Secretary for Infrastructure (Državni tajnik za infrastrukturu)
Danijel Mileta, State Secretary for Railway Transport (Državni tajnik za željeznički promet)

Directors

Maja Markovčić-Kostelac, Director, Directorate for Maritime Traffic, Maritime Domain and Ports (v. d. Ravnateljica Uprave pomorskog prometa, pomorskog dobra i luka)
Capt. Janko Brnardić, Director, Directorate for Inland Waterway Navigation (Ravnatelj Uprave za unutarnju plovidbu)
Capt. Joško Nikolić, Director, Directorate for Seafaring and Inland Waterway Navigation Safety and Sea and River Protection (Ravnatelj Uprave za sigurnost plovidbe, zaštitu mora i unutarnjih voda)
Danijel Krakić, Director, Directorate for Railway Traffic (Ravnatelj Uprave za željeznički promet)
Krešo Antonović, Director, Directorate for Electronic communications and Postal Services (Ravnatelj Uprave za elektroničke komunikacije i poštu)
Katarina Čop Bajde, Director, Directorate for the Infrastructural Objects (Ravnateljica Uprave za strateške infrastrukturne objekte)
Jure Šarić, Director, Directorate for Air Traffic (Ravnatelj Uprave za zračni promet)
Josip Borić, Assistant Minister for Islands (Pomoćnik ministra za otočni i priobalni razvoj)
Ante Nevešćanin, Directorate for Road Traffic (v. d. Ravnatelj Uprave za cestovni promet)
-, Directorate for Road Inspections (Uprava za prometnu inspekciju)
-, Directorate for Budget and Finance (Uprava za proračun i financije)

List of ministers

Minister	Party	Term start	Term end
Josip Božičević	Non-party	25 July 1990	12 August 1992
Ivica Mudrinić	Croatian Democratic Union Croatian Democratic Union The Croatian Democratic Union is the main center-right political party in Croatia. It is the biggest and strongest individual Croatian party since independence of Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003... (HDZ)	12 August 1992	5 February 1996
Željko Lužavec	Croatian Democratic Union Croatian Democratic Union The Croatian Democratic Union is the main center-right political party in Croatia. It is the biggest and strongest individual Croatian party since independence of Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003... (HDZ)	5 February 1996	4 August 1999
Ivan Pavlović	Croatian Democratic Union Croatian Democratic Union The Croatian Democratic Union is the main center-right political party in Croatia. It is the biggest and strongest individual Croatian party since independence of Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003... (HDZ)	4 August 1999	27 January 2000
Alojz Tušek	Croatian Social Liberal Party Croatian Social Liberal Party Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS is a conservative liberal political party in Croatia. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Its current president is Darinko Kosor, elected to that post in November 2009.-Chronology:The HSLS was... (HSLS)	27 January 2000	21 March 2002
Mario Kovač	Croatian Social Liberal Party Croatian Social Liberal Party Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS is a conservative liberal political party in Croatia. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Its current president is Darinko Kosor, elected to that post in November 2009.-Chronology:The HSLS was... (HSLS)	21 March 2002	30 July 2002
Roland Žuvanić	Party of Liberal Democrats (LIBRA)	30 July 2002	23 December 2003
Božidar Kalmeta Božidar Kalmeta Božidar Kalmeta is a Croatian politician, currently serving as Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure in the Croatian Government .-Early life:He graduated in 1982 from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Agronomy.From 1982 to 1993 he...	Croatian Democratic Union Croatian Democratic Union The Croatian Democratic Union is the main center-right political party in Croatia. It is the biggest and strongest individual Croatian party since independence of Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003... (HDZ)	23 December 2003	Incumbent Incumbent The incumbent, in politics, is the existing holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W...

External links

Official Ministry website