The review was prepared by a multidisciplinary team led by Daniel Trnka, Senior Policy Analyst, under the guidance of Nick Malyshev, Head of the Regulatory Policy Division, and the leadership by Marcos Bonturi, Director of the Public Governance Directorate. The following team members took primary responsibility for different sections of the review: Daniel Trnka for Chapters 4 (stakeholder engagement and public consultations) and 7 (regulatory compliance, enforcement and inspections); Eric Thomson for Chapters 5 (the development of new regulations), 6 (ex post evaluation of regulation) and 8 (multilevel governance: sub-national level); Yola Thürer for Chapters 1 (macroeconomic and political context), 2 (context for better regulation), 3 (institutional framework and capacities) and 9 (multi-level governance: EU level). Sarah Perrett from the OECD Centre for Tax Policy prepared Chapter 10 (SME taxation in Croatia). The review team would like to thank Bert Brys and Sarah Perrett for the great collaboration. Many thanks go to delegates of the OECD Regulatory Policy Committee as well as to colleagues from the OECD Regulatory Policy Division and the Investment Division for providing useful comments and support; to Claudia Paupe and Anna-Sofia Kanjovski for lending administrative and organisational support; and to Jennifer Stein for co-ordinating the editorial process. The financial support of the European Union through its Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS) is gratefully acknowledged.
The team included peers from the members of the OECD Regulatory Policy Committee, who actively participated in the fact-finding mission to Croatia and provided key inputs throughout the development of the review: Nadia Marin from the Office for Regulatory Quality in Italy and Andrea García Vidal from the Office for Co-ordination and Normative Quality in Spain. Külvi Noor from the Ministry of Justice in Estonia, Morten Vestergaard Hansen from the Danish Business Authority, Martin Traynor from the UK Cabinet Office and Daniel Kühnhenrich from the German Federal Statistical Office also participated in the workshops in Croatia.
The review would not have been possible without the support of the Government of Croatia. The team would like to thank in particular Filip Kočiš from the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts for the unique assistance in collecting data and information, organising the team’s fact-finding mission and workshops in Croatia and providing feedback throughout the development of the review.