This report was prepared by the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate (TAD), under the leadership of Marion Jansen (Director), Julia Nielson (Deputy Director) and Guillaume Gruère (Head of the Agriculture and Resource Policies Division). Its preparation was led by Adriana García Vargas in a project overseen by Jesús Antón. The authors of the report are Hélène Bombrun (Chapter 4), Adriana García Vargas (Chapters 1, 2, and 6), Juan David Sáenz Henao (Chapter 5), and Hugo Valin (Chapter 3). Daniela Rodríguez was in charge of the statistics for the report. Martina Abderrahmane and Michèle Patterson provided editing and publication support. Vanja Dobrijević and Linda Peña Caviativa (both formerly at the OECD) supported the team with background research. The authors are grateful for the comments and input received from TAD colleagues Mercedes Campi, Koen Deconinck, Céline Giner, Alonso González Marentis, Evdokia Moïsé, Sébastien Mirodout, and Silvia Sorescu, as well as from Annamaria De Crescenzio (Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs), Sebastian Königs (Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs), Frithjof Laubinger and Katarina Svatikova (Environment Directorate), and James Drummond and Daniel Trnka (Directorate for Public Governance). Delegates of the Committee for Agriculture also provided valuable feedback.
The review is the result of close co-operation between the OECD and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Croatia. The team in Zagreb, under the leadership of State Secretary Tugomir Majdak, was expertly co-ordinated by Mihaela Bajkovac-Ćurić, Petra Badovinac, Jakša Petrić and Anita Sever-Koren and included staff across the Ministry and its teams, who engaged with requests from the OECD Secretariat and provided their insights and expertise. The review team also thanks Rina Eterović-Goreta and Barbara Majer (former and current OECD Accession Coordinators at the Croatian Embassy in France) for their engagement and support over the course of the review.
The OECD team also wishes to express its appreciation to the numerous government officials and stakeholders that participated in the OECD fact-finding mission on 12-15 September 2023 for their valuable input and comments. They include staff from numerous directorates of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as well as representatives from the following public, private and non-governmental entities: Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development; Ministry of Health; Ministry of the Interior; Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy; Ministry of Science and Education; BC Institute; Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food; Croatian Chamber of Agriculture; Croatian Chamber of Economy; Croatian Competition Agency; Croatian Forests; Croatian Institute of Public Health; Croatian Young Farmers Association; Faculty of Agriculture Zagreb; Green Forum; Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation; Institute for Agriculture and Tourism Poreč; LEADER network of Croatia; Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development; State Inspectorate.