Data-center law in Croatia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Croatia's Zakon o poticanju ulaganja (Investment Promotion Act), currently Narodne novine 63/22 as amended, most recently by 136/24, names data centres among the eligible business-support-centre investments for its capital-cost and job-creation state aid, alongside product design centres, multimedia contact centres and information-and-communication-technology development centres, per Articles 5 and 16.

Croatia's general land-use planning, construction and environmental-impact-assessment statutes (Zakon o prostornom uređenju, Zakon o gradnji, Zakon o zaštiti okoliša) and its electricity-market and grid-connection statute (Zakon o tržištu električne energije) govern a data centre's siting and grid connection the way they would any large facility; no provision naming data centres specifically within them has been established, so none is recorded as an instrument on that account.

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Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?

Zakon o poticanju ulaganja, Business Support Centre Incentives Including Data Centres (Arts. 5, 16)

In force

Zakon o poticanju ulaganja, Narodne novine 63/22, 136/24, cl. 5, 16

Effective 2024-12-04 · Applies to private

Article 5 makes state aid under the Investment Promotion Act available to sustainable investment projects in, among other categories, business support activities.

Article 16 defines that category to include 'centri poslovnih aktivnosti' (business activity centres) aimed at concentrating business functions, expressly naming data centres alongside product design and engineering centres, multimedia contact centres, and information-and-communication-technology development centres, and it makes an investment in one of these centres eligible for additional job-creation aid beyond the ordinary support the Act provides for a qualifying investment.

Source: Full text of law

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