| AKIS | Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System |
| AMEUP | Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes |
| AMS | Area Monitoring System |
| APO | Associations of producer organisations |
| APPRRR | Croatia’s Paying Agency in Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development (Agencija za plaćanja u poljoprivredi, ribarstvu i ruralnom razvoju) |
| ARKOD | Croatia's system for digital identification of land parcels |
| ASC | Advisory Service Croatia |
| ASHE | Agency for Science and Higher Education |
| ASOO | Agency for Vocational Education and Training |
| AWU | Annual Working Unit |
| BERD | Business Expenditure on Research and Development |
| BISS | EU Basic Income Support for Sustainability |
| CAEI | Croatian Agriculture Extension Institute |
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union |
| CARDS | Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation programme |
| CBS | Croatian Bureau of Statistics |
| CCT | EU Common Customs Tariff |
| CEFTA | Central European Free Trade Agreement |
| CES | Croatian Employment Service |
| CIS | EU Coupled Income Support |
| CIS-YF | EU Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers |
| CMO | EU Common market organization |
| CNDP | Complementary national direct payments |
| CPVO | Community Plant Variety Office |
| CRISS | EU Complementary redistributive income support for sustainability |
| CROFQ | Croatian Qualifications Framework |
| CSP | CAP Strategic Plan |
| DESI | EU Digital Economy and Society Index |
| DIGIT | Digital, innovative and green technologies project |
| DPSDA | Directorate for Professional Support to the Development of Agriculture |
| EAFRD | European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development |
| EAGF | European Agricultural Guarantee Fund |
| EC | European Commission |
| EEA | European Economic Area |
| EFSA | European Food Safety Agency |
| EIP | European Innovation Partnership |
| EPO | European Patent Organisation |
| ERDF | European Regional Development Fund |
| ESF | European Social Fund |
| ESIF | European Structural and Investment Funds |
| ETS | Emissions Trading System |
| EU | European Union |
| EUFRAS | European Forum for Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services |
| EUR | Euro |
| FCFS | First-come-first-served |
| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment |
| FSC | Forest Stewardship Council |
| FTTP | Fibre to the Premises |
| FVA | Foreign Value Added |
| GAEC | Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GBARD | Government Budget Allocation for Research and Development |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GDPR | EU General Data Protection Regulation |
| GERD | Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| GII | Global Innovation Index |
| GSP | Generalised Scheme of Preferences |
| GVC | Global value chains |
| HAH | Croatian Food Agency |
| HAMAG-BICRO | Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation and Investments |
| HAP | Croatian Agricultural Agency |
| HAPIH | Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food |
| HBOR | Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| HGK | Croatian Chamber of Economy |
| HRK | Croatian Kuna |
| HRZZ | Croatian Science Foundation |
| HS | Harmonised System |
| HZN | Croatian Standards Institute |
| IALB | International Academy of Agricultural and Home Economics Consultants |
| IBO | Inter-branch organisation |
| ICT | Information and communication technologies |
| IP | Intellectual property |
| IPARD | Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance - Rural Development |
| IPR | Intellectual property rights |
| ISPA | Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession |
| LAG | Local Action Group |
| LDC | Least-developed countries |
| LEADER | Liaison Entre Actions de Développement de l’Économie Rurale |
| LIFE | EU Funding Instrument for the Environment and Climate Action |
| LUCAS | EU Land Use and Land Cover survey |
| LULUCF | Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry |
| MESD | Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development |
| MFN | Most-favoured nation |
| MZO | Ministry of Science and Education |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| N | Nitrogen |
| NAV | Non-ad valorem tariffs |
| NGA | Next Generation Agenda |
| NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
| NH3 | Ammonia |
| NTM | Non-tariff measure |
| OHRRNM | Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities |
| OPG | Legal form of family farms in Croatia (obiteljsko poljoprivredno gospodarstvo) |
| P | Phosphorus |
| PHARE | Programme of Community Aid to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe |
| PO | Producer organisation |
| PSE | Producer Support Estimate |
| RASFF | Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed |
| RBC | Responsible Business Conduct |
| RDP | Rural Development Programme |
| RIA | Regulatory Impact Assessment |
| RRF | EU Recovery and Resilience Facility |
| RRP | Croatian Recovery and Resilience Plan |
| SAPARD | Special Accession Programme for Rural Development |
| SDG | Sustainable Development Goals |
| SEASN | Southeast European Network of Advisory Services |
| SFS | EU Small Farmers Scheme |
| SME | Small and Medium Enterprise |
| SMR | Statutory Management Requirement |
| SPS | Sanitary and phytosanitary measures |
| SSG | Special agricultural safeguard |
| SWOT | Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats |
| TBT | Technical barriers to trade |
| TFP | Total Factor Productivity |
| TIC | Thematic innovation councils |
| TRIPS | Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| TRQ | Tariff rate quota |
| UAA | Utilised agricultural area |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNFSS | UN Food Systems Summit |
| UPOV | International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants |
| USD | US Dollar |
| VAT | Value added tax |
| VCS | EU voluntary coupled support |
| VHCN | Very high-capacity networks |
| VIP | Croatia's Agriculture Research Council |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
| YFP | EU Young Farmer Payment |
Policies for the Future of Farming and Food in Croatia
