Law amending the Law on nature protection.

This Law amends certain provisions part of the Law on nature protection (originally published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia 80/2013, and already extensively amended in the Gazette 15/2018; and amended in Gazette 14/2019).
Changes are as follows: in Chapter III (entitled “Use of natural goods and space and assessment of ecological network acceptability”), section dedicated to the use of natural resources and space, article 23 (setting rules regarding competent national and local bodies) is entirely reedited. In article 61 (paragraph 3) the word central is now deleted. Article 143 is amended as follows: “For interventions in a protected area for which, in accordance with special regulations in the field of physical planning and special regulations in the field of construction, it is necessary to obtain a construction act (except for interventions referred to in article 23 of this Law) from the Ministry for interventions in the area of a special reserve and for interventions in the area of a national park or nature park carried out by a public institution for the management of a national park or nature park; form a public institution for the management of a national park or nature park for interventions carried out in the area of a national park or nature park, for which the public institution is not the holder; from the administrative body for interventions carried out in the area of a regional park, natural monuments, significant landscape, park-forest and monuments of park architecture . Throughout the entire text of the Law on nature protection (Official Gazette 80/2013, 15/2018 and 14/2019), the words “central state administration body” in a certain number and case shall be replaced by the words “state body administration” in the appropriate number and case.