Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (Croatia)

The ministry of Economy of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo gospodarstva i održivog razvoja) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of the development of the economy, and conducting administrative and other tasks related to:

• industry, except food and tobacco industry, shipbuilding, energy, mining, trade, cooperatives, other than agricultural, small and medium businesses, trade, trade policy, and policy to protect domestic production; economic cooperation with foreign countries,
• involvement in European economic integration, the harmonization of activities in conjunction with the Croatian membership in the World Trade Organization and participation in multilateral trade negotiations in the framework of this organization,
• promotion of exports and foreign investment, the establishment and operation of free zones, systematic stimulation of entrepreneurship, state of market, supplies and prices, consumer protection, strategic stockpiles, the privatization of shares and stakes in the state owned companies, restructuring and rehabilitation of legal entities,
• safety at work.

Ministry of Economy

Ministarstvo gospodarstva
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Croatia
Headquarters	Ulica Grada Vukovara 78, Zagreb, Croatia 45°47′59″N 15°58′38″E
Employees	362 (2015)[1]
Annual budget	HRK 1.567 billion (2015)[2]
Minister responsible	Ante Šušnjar
Website	mingor.gov.hr

List of ministers

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Ivan Čermak		HDZ	20 May 1993	12 October 1993	145
Nadan Vidošević		HDZ	12 October 1993	18 September 1995	706
Zlatko Mateša		HDZ	18 September 1995	7 November 1995	50
Davor Štern		HDZ	7 November 1995	14 April 1997	524
Nenad Porges		HDZ	14 April 1997	27 January 2000	1,018
Goranko Fižulić		HSLS	27 January 2000	21 March 2002	784
Hrvoje Vojković		HSLS	21 March 2002	30 July 2002	131
Ljubo Jurčić		Ind.	30 July 2002	23 December 2003	511
Branko Vukelić		HDZ	23 December 2003	12 January 2008	1,481
Damir Polančec		HDZ	12 January 2008	30 October 2009	657
Đuro Popijač		HDZ	19 November 2009	23 December 2011	764
Radimir Čačić		HNS-LD	23 December 2011	14 November 2012	327
Tamara Obradović-Mazal (acting)		Ind.	14 November 2012	16 November 2012	2
Ivan Vrdoljak		HNS-LD	16 November 2012	22 January 2016	1,162
Tomislav Panenić		Most	22 January 2016	19 October 2016	271
Martina Dalić		HDZ	19 October 2016	14 May 2018	572
Darko Horvat		HDZ	25 May 2018	23 July 2020	790
Tomislav Ćorić		HDZ	23 July 2020	29 April 2022	645
Davor Filipović		HDZ	29 April 2022	12 December 2023	1,264
Damir Habijan		HDZ	12 December 2023	17 May 2024	672

Ministers of Crafts, Small and Mid-sized Entrepreneurship (2000–2003)

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Željko Pecek		HSS	27 January 2000	23 December 2003	1,426

Ministers of Entrepreneurship and Crafts (2011–2016)

Main article: Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts (Croatia)

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Gordan Maras		SDP	23 December 2011	22 January 2016	1,491
Darko Horvat		HDZ	22 January 2016	19 October 2016	271

Origins

The Ministry of Economy was not included as such in the first four Croatian Governments. The Cabinet of Stjepan Mesić and the Cabinet of Josip Manolić included the minister for social planning (Croatian: društveno planiranje; post held by Stjepan Zdunić) and the minister of energy and industry (Croatian: energetika i industrija; Božo Udovičić). In the Cabinet of Franjo Gregurić, the former minister became the minister of economic development (Croatian: gospodarski razvitak), and there was also a minister of trade (Croatian: trgovina; Petar Kriste, Branko Mikša). The Cabinet of Hrvoje Šarinić in turn included the minister of industry, shipbuilding and energy (Croatian: industrija, brodogradnja i energetika; Franjo Kajfež) and the minister of tourism and trade (Croatian: turizam i trgovina; Branko Mikša).

In the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša, the prime minister also talked of renaming the ministry of economy back into the ministry of industry and energy.^[3] In the Cabinet of Andrej Plenković in October 2016 the Ministry of Economy was merged with the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts into the Ministry of Economy, Small and Medium Entrepreneurship and Crafts.