First Release

Year: LIX.
Zagreb, 09 February 2023
POSL-2022-1-1/4

ISSN 1334-0557

NUMBER AND STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, DECEMBER 2022

The comparison of the number of legal entities in the Register of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics with the number of active legal entities in other registers shows that the share of active legal entities was 53.5%.

This discrepancy occurs due to differences in the methodology of data entry method and of defining activities applied in individual registers.

The data on the number of entities in crafts and trades and free lances refer to the number of self-employed entrepreneurs, with or without employees, as well as to the number of persons engaged in a professional activity according to pension insurance records.

1 BUSINESS ENTITIES, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

   Number of registered legal entities Number of active entities Share of active legal entities, %
Total 323 945 173 462 53,5
Trade companies 245 815 138 627 56,4
Co-operatives 3 563 686 19,3
Institutions, bodies, associations and organisations 74 567 34 149 45,8
Entities in crafts and trades and free lances - 91 326 -

G-1 STRUCTURE OF LEGAL ENTITIES1), BY LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS AND ACTIVITY, DECEMBER 2022

1) Including government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units.

2 STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, BY ACTIVITY AND ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS,
SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

   Number of legal entities Active legal entities Crafts and trades and free lances
Registered Structure of registered legal entities, % Active Structure of active legal entities, % Profit Non-profit
  Total   323 945 100,0 173 462 100,0 139 313 34 149 91 326
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing   5 994 1,9 2 532 1,5 2 530 2 2 611
Mining and quarrying   356 0,1 190 0,1 190 - 38
Manufacturing   25 333 7,8 15 467 8,9 15 464 3 8 162
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply   1 786 0,6 848 0,5 848 - 16
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities  1 406 0,4 862 0,5 859 3 96
F Construction   33 638 10,4 19 469 11,2 19 468 1 10 570
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles   56 556 17,5 26 681 15,4 26 482 199 8 199
H Transportation and storage   12 161 3,8 6 810 3,9 6 776 34 5 784
I Accommodation and food service activities   26 485 8,2 13 073 7,5 13 023 50 6 361
J Information and communication   12 321 3,8 8 310 4,8 8 285 25 3 476
K Financial and insurance activities   1 880 0,6 970 0,6 943 27 522
L Real estate activities   11 459 3,5 6 068 3,5 6 068 - 569
M Professional, scientific and technical activities   33 399 10,3 22 261 12,8 22 094 167 15 314
N Administrative and support service activities   12 955 4,0 7 477 4,3 7 474 3 3 437
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security    3 073 0,9 914 0,5 16 898 6 029
P Education 4 601 1,4 3 668 2,1 1 108 2 560 1 179
Q Human health and social work activities 5 407 1,7 3 463 2,0 1 092 2 371 5 011
R Arts, entertainment and recreation 23 523 7,3 11 665 6,7 1 891 9 774 3 051
S Other service activities 51 556 15,9 22 733 13,1 4 701 18 032 10 827
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use 2 0,0 1 0,0 1 - 37
U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies 54 0,0 - - - - -
  Unknown - - - - - - 37

The data on the structure of business entities by economic activities show that more than a half of both registered and active entities belong to the following four activity sections: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles with 17.5% of registered and 15.4% of active entities, Manufacturing with 7.8% of registered and 8.9% of active entities, Professional, scientific and technical activities with 10.3% of registered and 12.8% of active entities and Other service activities with 15.9% of registered and 13.1% of active entities.

The share of profit entities in the total active business entities was 80.3% and their structure by economic activities shows that 69.3% of them belonged to five activity sections, shown in the following order of frequency: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (19.0%), Professional, scientific and technical activities (15.9%), Manufacturing (11.1%), Construction (14.0%) and Accommodation and food service activities (9.3%).

The share of non-profit active entities was 19.7%. Half of them were classified into the activity section Other service activities. The remaining half was distributed between Arts, entertainment and recreation (28.6%), Education (7.5%), Human health and social work activities (6.9%) and Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (2.6%).

The structure of entities in crafts and trades and free lances by economic activities was much more balanced than the structure of legal entities. Professional, scientific and technical activities was the most present activity section. Besides this activity section, five other activities covered one half of the total number of entities.

G-2 STRUCTURE OF LEGAL ENTITIES1), BY ACTIVITY AND ACCORDING TO NKD-a 2007. SECTIONS, DECEMBER 2022

1) Including government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units.

 

NKD 2007. activity sections

A Agriculture, forestry and fishing
B Mining and quarrying
C Manufacturing
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
F Construction
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
H Transportation and storage
I Accommodation and food service activities
J Information and communication
K Financial and insurance activities
L Real estate activities
M Professional, scientific and technical activities
N Administrative and support service activities
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
P Education
Q Human health and social work activities
R Arts, entertainment and recreation
S Other service activities
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods – and services – producing activities of households for own use
U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies

 

3 STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, BY OWNERSHIP TYPES AND NKD 2007. SECTIONS,
SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

   Total Ownership types
State owership Private ownership Co-operative ownership Mixed owership No owership
Number of legal entities Share in total, % Number of legal entities Share in total, % Number of legal entities Share in total, % Number of legal entities Share in total, % Number of legal entities Share in total, %
  Total 173 462 1 403 0,8 137 402 79,2 686 0,4 687 0,4 33 284 19,2
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing   2 532 12 0,5 2 245 88,7 249 9,8 24 0,9 2 0,1
B Mining and quarrying   190 4 2,1 176 92,6 2 1,1 8 4,2 - -
C Manufacturing   15 467 59 0,4 15 112 97,7 126 0,8 168 1,1 2 0,0
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply   848 34 4,0 804 94,8 1 0,1 9 1,1 - -
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities  862 316 36,7 537 62,3 1 0,1 6 0,7 2 0,2
F Construction   19 469 69 0,4 19 287 99,1 66 0,3 46 0,2 1 0,0
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles   26 681 36 0,1 26 288 98,5 81 0,3 122 0,5 154 0,6
H Transportation and storage   6 810 60 0,9 6 676 98,0 11 0,2 33 0,5 30 0,4
I Accommodation and food service activities   13 073 41 0,3 12 880 98,5 41 0,3 64 0,5 47 0,4
J Information and communication   8 310 39 0,5 8 203 98,7 6 0,1 40 0,5 22 0,3
K Financial and insurance activities   970 18 1,9 910 93,8 7 0,7 10 1,0 25 2,6
L Real estate activities   6 068 37 0,6 6 010 99,0 1 0,0 20 0,3 - -
M Professional, scientific and technical activities   22 261 184 0,8 21 841 98,1 31 0,1 97 0,4 108 0,5
N Administrative and support service activities   7 477 76 1,0 7 367 98,5 18 0,2 14 0,2 2 0,0
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security    914 38 4,2 2 0,2 1 0,1 1 0,1 872 95,4
P Education 3 668 193 5,3 1 268 34,6 - - 4 0,1 2 203 60,1
Q Human health and social work activities 3 463 56 1,6 1 302 37,6 19 0,5 3 0,1 2 083 60,2
R Arts, entertainment and recreation 11 665 97 0,8 1 849 15,9 15 0,1 5 0,0 9 699 83,1
S Other service activities 22 733 34 0,1 4 644 20,4 10 0,0 13 0,1 18 032 79,3
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use 1 - - 1 100,0 - - - - - -
U Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies - - - - - - - - - - -

G-3 STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, BY OWNERSHIP TYPES, DECEMBER 2022

The structure of active legal entities by ownership types shows that the private ownership predominated with 79.2% of entities, while 0.8% of entities were owned by the state, 0.4% of them were in mixed ownership and 0.4% of entities were in co-operative ownership. The ownership of 19.2% of legal entities was not monitored.

The ownership structure by activities shows that privately owned entities were predominant in service activities, e.g. Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles had a share of 98.5%, Real estate activities of 99.0% and Transportation and storage of 98.0%. Approximately the same share of private ownership existed in the productive activities such as Construction (99.1%), Manufacturing (97.7%) and Information and communication (98.7%).

4 NUMBER OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY NUMBER OF PERSONS IN EMPLOYMENT, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

   Total Number of persons in employment
0 1 ‒ 9 10 ‒ 49 50 ‒ 249 250 ‒ 499 500 and more
  Total 173 462 63 289 91 867 14 114 3 593 325 274
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing   2 532 678 1 542 255 46 4 7
B Mining and quarrying   190 32 105 40 11 - 2
C Manufacturing   15 467 3 130 9 086 2 400 697 90 64
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply   848 493 285 52 12 2 4
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities  862 136 326 275 109 14 2
F Construction   19 469 5 299 11 895 1 976 275 17 7
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles   26 681 6 514 17 607 2 163 308 42 47
H Transportation and storage   6 810 1 708 4 383 565 120 21 13
I Accommodation and food service activities   13 073 3 717 8 055 1 167 114 7 13
J Information and communication   8 310 2 630 4 916 641 102 14 7
K Financial and insurance activities   970 206 629 79 29 8 19
L Real estate activities   6 068 3 903 2 030 123 10 1 1
M Professional, scientific and technical activities   22 261 5 885 15 140 1 110 117 5 4
N Administrative and support service activities   7 477 2 943 3 948 460 101 13 12
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security    914 15 222 451 177 28 21
P Education 3 668 446 1 192 968 1 037 19 6
Q Human health and social work activities 3 463 1 050 1 399 715 232 29 38
R Arts, entertainment and recreation 11 665 8 344 2 925 321 59 9 7
S Other service activities 22 733 16 159 6 182 353 37 2 -
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use 1 1 - - - - -
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies - - - - - - -

Observation of the structure of active legal entities according to the number of persons in paid employment shows that the highest share of 53.0% belonged to entities employing 1 – 9 persons, followed by 36.5% of entities without persons in employment, 8.1% of entities employing 10 – 49 persons and 2.1% of entities employing 50 – 249 persons, while entities employing more than 250 persons had a share of only 0.4%.

5 TRADE COMPANIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS AND ACTIVITY, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

   Legal organisational forms
Total Joint stock companies Limited liability companies
Registered Active Registered Active Registered Active
  Total 245 815 138 627 1 185 689 175 471 102 011
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing   4 751 2 281 37 19 3 494 1 815
B Mining and quarrying   348 188 14 8 303 169
C Manufacturing   24 918 15 338 353 186 18 800 11 801
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply   1 778 847 9 6 1 510 750
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities  1 393 858 7 3 1 109 741
F Construction   32 817 19 403 124 67 22 558 12 901
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles   55 982 26 401 164 76 43 565 20 962
H Transportation and storage   12 065 6 765 60 35 6 872 4 272
I Accommodation and food service activities   26 290 12 982 123 85 13 840 7 623
J Information and communication   12 236 8 279 38 27 9 517 6 765
K Financial and insurance activities   1 480 935 86 72 1 263 792
L Real estate activities   11 451 6 067 33 25 10 051 5 419
M Professional, scientific and technical activities   33 094 22 063 111 68 25 615 17 537
N Administrative and support service activities   12 856 7 456 10 6 8 922 5 505
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security    33 15 - - 20 10
P Education 1 675 1 108 2 1 1 105 749
Q Human health and social work activities 1 524 1 073 - - 1 179 882
R Arts, entertainment and recreation 3 164 1 876 10 4 1 919 1 144
S Other service activities 7 958 4 691 4 1 3 828 2 173
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use 2 1 - - 1 1
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies - - - - - -

5 TRADE COMPANIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS AND ACTIVITY, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

(continued)

   Legal organisational forms
Simple limited liability companies Public trade companies Main subsidiaries of foreign trade companies or individual traders Other legal forms
Registered Active Registered Active Registered Active Registered Active
  Total 67 403 35 154 365 175 1 121 477 270 121
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing   1 211 442 1 - 4 2 4 3
B Mining and quarrying   28 10 - - 3 1 - -
C Manufacturing   5 621 3 303 3 1 132 45 9 2
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply   253 90 - - 5 1 1 -
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities  265 111 - - 11 3 1 -
F Construction   9 784 6 307 45 8 296 119 10 1
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles   11 966 5 248 11 1 258 108 18 6
H Transportation and storage   5 081 2 435 6 3 45 19 1 1
I Accommodation and food service activities   12 290 5 258 2 - 31 14 4 2
J Information and communication   2 623 1 455 6 4 48 26 4 2
K Financial and insurance activities   79 28 - - 17 11 35 32
L Real estate activities   1 306 593 6 1 45 24 10 5
M Professional, scientific and technical activities   6 888 4 212 274 150 181 89 25 7
N Administrative and support service activities   3 864 1 919 4 3 35 11 21 12
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security    2 1 - - - - 11 4
P Education 562 355 1 - 4 2 1 1
Q Human health and social work activities 343 190 1 1 1 - - -
R Arts, entertainment and recreation 1 219 712 1 1 1 1 14 14
S Other service activities 4 017 2 485 4 2 4 1 101 29
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use 1 - - - - - - -
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies - - - - - - - -

Limited liability companies were markedly predominant in the structure of trade companies by legal organisational forms, with a share of 71.4% of registered and 73.6% of active ones. Simple limited liability companies held the second place by their number, with a share of 27.4% of registered and 25.4% of active companies. Other legal forms of trade companies constituted the remaining share of 1.2%.

6 REGISTERED NON-PROFIT LEGAL ENTITIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY ACTIVITY AND LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

   Total registered legal entities Share of active legal entities, % Groups of legal organisational forms
Associations, institutions, economic co-operations, foundations, fundraising campaigns, political parties and other organisations State government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units
  Total 74 567 45,8 72 140 2 427
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing   4 50,0 4 -
B Mining and quarrying   - - - -
C Manufacturing   7 42,9 7 -
D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply   1 0,0 1 -
E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities  5 60,0 5 -
F Construction   1 100,0 1 -
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles   224 88,8 224 -
H Transportation and storage   35 97,1 35 -
I Accommodation and food service activities   56 89,3 56 -
J Information and communication   63 39,7 63 -
K Financial and insurance activities   233 11,6 233 -
L Real estate activities   - - - -
M Professional, scientific and technical activities   199 83,9 199 -
N Administrative and support service activities   8 37,5 8 -
O Public administration and defence; compulsory social security    3 039 29,5 612 2 427
P Education 2 923 87,6 2 923 -
Q Human health and social work activities 3 838 61,8 3 838 -
R Arts, entertainment and recreation 20 325 48,1 20 325 -
S Other service activities 43 552 41,4 43 552 -
T Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use - - - -
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies 54 0,0 54 -

The structure of registered non-profit legal entities by legal forms shows that associations, institutions, co-operations and similar organisations had a share of 96.7%, while state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units had a share of 3.3%.

Concerning the activity of the mentioned legal entities, there were 45.8% of active ones. Their structure by activities shows that they were entities belonging to four activity sections: Other service activities with 58.4% of registered and 41.4% of active ones, Public administration and defence; compulsory social security with 4.1% of registered and 29.5% of active ones, Human health and social work activities with 5.1% of registered and 61.8% of active entities and Education with only 3.9% of registered ones, but with the largest share of active entities (87.6%).

7 STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, BY COUNTIES, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2022

County of Total registered legal entities Trade companies Co-operatives Registered institutions, bodies, associations and organisations Entities in crafts and trades and free lances
Registered Active Registered  Active
Republic of Croatia 323 945 245 815 138 627 3 563 686 74 567 91 326
Zagreb 20 731 16 440 9 862 143 23 4 148 5 330
Krapina-Zagorje 5 852 3 951 2 481 75 13 1 826 2 556
Sisak-Moslavina 7 133 4 354 2 430 168 23 2 611 2 301
Karlovac 6 169 4 019 2 353 130 25 2 020 1 922
Varaždin 9 524 6 881 4 270 98 19 2 545 2 928
Koprivnica-Križevci 5 330 3 417 1 971 198 31 1 715 1 663
Bjelovar-Bilogora 6 088 4 037 2 329 209 40 1 842 1 311
Primorje-Gorski kotar 27 114 21 507 11 487 154 28 5 453 9 437
Lika-Senj 2 698 1 643 958 76 7 979 834
Virovitica-Podravina 3 459 2 024 1 186 117 15 1 318 1 160
Požega-Slavonia 2 797 1 586 994 52 6 1 159 1 154
Slavonski Brod-Posavina 6 049 3 883 2 191 92 19 2 074 2 289
Zadar 11 919 8 958 5 253 218 41 2 743 4 623
Osijek-Baranja 15 927 10 161 5 861 276 69 5 490 4 811
Šibenik-Knin  6 974 4 669 2 462 205 36 2 100 2 753
Vukovar-Sirmium 7 016 4 020 2 289 213 55 2 783 2 384
Split-Dalmatia 33 613 25 808 14 836 436 110 7 369 12 209
Istria 24 213 20 215 10 916 111 15 3 887 7 959
Dubrovnik-Neretva 9 294 6 490 3 982 101 30 2 703 3 884
Međimurje 7 427 5 760 3 498 48 7 1 619 1 403
City of Zagreb 104 618 85 992 47 018 443 74 18 183 18 415

The data on the territorial distribution of business entities at the county level show that slightly less than one third of the total number of registered business entities (legal entities) were situated in the City of Zagreb. The City of Zagreb, however, had a significantly lower share of entities in crafts and trades and free lances, amounting to 20.2%. The County of Split-Dalmatia followed, with a share of 10.4% of legal entities and 13.4% of natural persons.

Three counties had a share larger than 5.0% of registered legal entities: the County of Primorje-Gorski kotar (8.4%), the County of Istria (7.5%) and the County of Zagreb (6.4%). The number of natural persons came in the same order.

The territorial structure of active trade companies was different in relation to the structure of the registered ones. Hence, the City of Zagreb had a share of 35.0% of registered and 34.0% of active entities, while the share of the second largest county, the County of Split-Dalmatia, was 10.7% of active and 10.5% of registered entities.

8 CREATING, DELETING AND HARMONISING OF REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITIES, 2021 AND 2022

   2021 2022  
I ‒ III IV ‒ VI VII ‒ IX X ‒ XII I ‒ III IV ‒ VI VII ‒ IX X ‒ XII
Creations 3 720 3 805 3 599 4 078 4 266 4 484 3 915 4 189
Trade companies 3 278 3 436 3 262 3 695 3 811 4 121 3 584 3 824
Other 442 369 337 383 455 363 331 365
Deletions 179 120 76 195 144 602 152 113
Enterprises - 11) - - - 4 - 2
Trade companies 112 72 54 98 88 113 61 80
Other 67 47 22 97 56 485 91 31
Harmonisations according to the Companies Act 1 2 2 - 2 3 6 3

1) Enterprises and co-operatives.

Data on changes in registered entities are divided into three groups: creations, deletions and harmonisations. They show that in the mentioned period the number of  deletions and harmonisations decreased, while the number of creations increased.

The share of trade companies in the number of newly created entities was 91.3% in the observed period.

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

I Introduction

Based on the Act on the National Classification of Activities (NN, No. 98/94), the Decision on the National Classification of Activities − NKD 2007. (NN, Nos 58/07 and 72/07) and the Ordinance on the Classification of Business Entities According to the National Classification of Activities − NKD 2007. (NN, Nos 55/16 and 35/18), the Croatian Bureau of Statistics keeps the Register of Business Entities (hereinafter referred to as: Register). The Register, pursuant to provisions of the aforementioned Ordinance, includes legal entities, state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units and parts thereof (hereinafter referred to as: business entities). The Register does not presently include natural persons engaged in activities according to regulations, foreign associations headquartered in the Republic of Croatia and business entities not headquartered in the Republic of Croatia.

The NKD 2007. is based on the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community – NACE Rev. 2, which is obligatory in EU Member States.

II Methods and sources of data collection

On registration, each business entity is assigned a seven-digit registration number, while its constituent parts are assigned an additional four-digit ordinal number besides that number.

Moreover, each business entity and parts thereof are assigned an activity code according to the NKD 2007.

Registered business entities are classified according to their prevailing activities in such a way that a numerical denotation of a class of the main activity is defined according to the NKD 2007. When, on the basis of a formal decision on registration with a competent authority or by law, a business entity is established to be engaged in more than one activity, the first classification according to the NKD 2007. is made upon the proposal of the business entity. Every subsequent classification of the business entity resulting in a change of the main activity is made in the following cases:

1) Upon the request of the business entity

2) Upon official duty, based on a change in the decision on registration with a competent authority or a change in the law.

The activity of the constituent parts of a business entity is established on the basis of a decision on registration with a competent authority or law on creation, irrespective of the activity of the business entity they are a part of.

Entry, registration, change and withdrawal of business entities are updated daily in the Register. Legal basis for updating the Register are the following:

1) Registers kept by:

trade courts

ministries

state administration offices

other registration bodies

2) Laws, decisions and other legal documents published in Narodne novine.

Registered business entities are structured according to the legal basis, as follows:

trade companies, enterprises, co-operatives and institutions are registered in the Register upon decisions of registration bodies (trade courts),

state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units registered according to the law

associations, foundations, political parties and others registered on the basis of decisions of registry bodies according to specific laws.

Difficulties in updating of a significant proportion of units in the Register are a consequence of long-term transition periods during which register bodies harmonise business entities according to a new legislation. This also postpones the procedure of deletions of business entities who have not submitted a request for harmonisation in line with new regulations. Consequently, the Register data have constantly been changing in line with data on business entities subsequently collected from publicly available data bases.

A lack in the coverage of the Register is related to business entities engaged in activities of crafts and free lances, foreign associations headquartered in the Republic of Croatia and business entities not headquartered in the Republic of Croatia. In addition, it must be pointed out that there are methodological discrepancies between the Register as an administrative data base and the Statistical Business Register (hereinafter referred to as: eSPRi).

The data of the Register of Business Entities are linked to administrative data bases through an identification number, a registration number and a personal identification number.

III Meaning of individual terms

Business entities are legal entities and natural persons that perform activities according to the law, public government bodies (government administration bodies, other government bodies, bodies of local and regional self-government units, legal entities and other public authorities, legal entities established by the Republic of Croatia or local and regional self-government units, legal entities performing public service, legal entities financed mostly or completely from the state or local and regional self-government units budgets, that is, from public funds (taxes, provisions etc.), on the basis of a special act as well as trade companies in which the Republic of Croatia or the local and regional self-government units hold individual or joint majority ownership.

Registered legal entities (business entities) are units that are registered in the Register. These are: trade companies, institutions, co-operatives, associations, political parties, public government bodies and other non-harmonised units that held a legal subjectivity status according to previously valid laws.

Active legal entities (business entities) are registered legal entities entered into the Register, for which the activity status has been determined according to the eSPRi data. 

Natural persons are units that carry out activities in line with the law and refer to crafts and trades and free lances.

Main activity is an activity established according to the largest share in the total value added in the case of business entities that make profit through production, trade or rendering of services on the market or by the largest share in the number of persons in employment according to the payroll and gross paid-off salaries in the case of business entities that do not make profit through production, trade and rendering of services on the market.

Identification number is a permanent identification denomination of each business entity. It is used in all activities of official statistics. It is determined in the process of allocation of a control number according to module 11, while any part of a business entity is at the same time determined a four-digit ordinal number along with the identification number.

Registration number is a number under which a business entity is entered in a court or another specific register.

Personal identification number (OIB) is a permanent identification designation of an OIB holder, used by OIB users in official records, in everyday activities and in data exchange. OIB is unique, non-revealing, unchangeable and non-iterative.

Legal organisational form is a characteristic of units in the Register that divides them as joint-stock companies, limited liability companies, simple limited liability companies, co-operatives, institutions, associations, state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units and other legal organisational forms. A legal organisational form of the Register has been determined by a decision of a competent registration body or by act on creation that is a basis for their entry into the Register.

Type of ownership is a characteristic of units entered into the Register that indicates the ownership structure of the unit and refer to the ownership of assets, that is, to startup deposit of a business entity.

Number of persons in employment is the feature used for indicating the size and structure of business entities. It is derived from Fina’s annual financial reports. In order to update this feature, as indicated in tables, the data have been harmonised with the regular monthly statistical survey that covers employment.

 

Abbreviations  
   
Fina Financial Agency
NKD 2007. National Classification of Activities, 2007 version
NN Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia
   
Symbols  
   
- no occurrence
0.0 value not zero but less than 0.05 of the unit of measure used

 

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