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Managing maritime domain in croatia : problems of implementing the new concessions act

The paper aims at giving a clear and systematic presentation of the new Concessions Act, with the emphasis on the maritime domain concessions. The basic changes of the Act refer to a different regulation of the concession granting procedure, which further significantly reflects on the efficiency of the concession awarding process. Certain provisions slow down the decision-making process and extend the competent jurisdiction to a number of ministries, and giving the Ministry of Finances a higher competence in the concession award system. The authors analyse the reasons for passing the Act in view of the fact that the compliance of national acts and regulations with their EU counterparts should not be done hastily. Legal regulations adopted in such a way question the efficiency of the concession system by prolonging the procedure period as the main factor of evaluation and of the efficient managing of the maritime domain and decrease the importance of decentralising the public administration. The public administration in Croatia is characterised by an authoritative management and conventional information flow. Because of the significance that the sea and coastal resources have for an efficient and sustainable economic development, such type of management, with permanent modifications of the law, M. KOVAČIĆ, V. SERŠIĆ, N. MLADINEO: Managing Maritime Domain in Croatia... 650 Pomorstvo, god. 23, br. 2 (2009), str. 649-666 often impede the progress. It is, therefore, necessary to phase in a team work and apply information technologies into the operations of the public administration. In order to make the procedures simpler and more efficient, the multi-level hierarchy in decision-making should be replaced by a decision-making process at an operational level. The authors have proposed concrete measures to be applied in the procedure of granting concessions by introducing quality criteria (level of successfulness), which also includes business communications. The emphasis has been given to the introduction of the Decision-making Support System process, as a solution for increasing the functionality in managing the maritime domain and for using the Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Concessions Act; maritime domain; public administration; efficient

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