Directorate for Judicial and Administrative Inspection

Responsibilities:
  • supervision of the administration of courts and state attorney's offices, including the examination of the merits of citizens’ complaints about proceedings before courts and the work of state attorney’s offices;
  • supervision of the material and financial operations of judicial bodies, and inspection of the work of notaries public;
  • supervision of the application of laws and other regulations governing the system, internal organisation and functioning of state administration bodies, other state bodies, bodies and administrative offices of local and regional self-government units;
  • supervision of the application of laws and other regulations governing civil service employment relations in said bodies; 
  • supervision of the application of laws governing administrative procedure, regulations on document and records management, regulations governing the content of the names of bodies and the use of prescribed signs and symbols, and regulations on the use of stamps and seals bearing the Croatian coat of arms by supervised bodies and legal persons vested with public authority;
  • addressing complaints submitted for the purpose of ensuring or protecting the rights of citizens and legal persons before inspected bodies and legal persons vested with public authority, which concern matters subject to inspection, and conducting inspection in cases stipulated by lex specialis.



Matters from the scope of the Division for the Inspection of State Administration are handled by administrative inspectors at the seat of the Ministry.

Matters from the scope of the Division for the Inspection of Local and Regional Self-Government are handled by:
  • administrative inspectors at the seat of the Ministry for the territories of Zagreb City and Zagreb County;
  • independent inspectors:
    • in Osijek for the territory of Osijek-Baranya County;
    • in Rijeka for the territory of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County;
    • in Split for the territory of Split-Dalmatia County;
    • in Dubrovnik for the territory of Dubrovnik-Neretva County;
    • in Zadar for the territory of Zadar County;
    • in Pula for the territory of Istria County;
    • in Gospić for the territory of Lika-Senj County
    • in Karlovac for the territory of Karlovac County
    • in Čakovec for the territory of Međimurje County
    • in Krapina for the territory of Krapina-Zagorje County
    • in Varaždin for the territory of Varaždin County
    • in Koprivnica for the territory of Koprivnica-Križevci County
    • in Bjelovar for the territory of Bjelovar-Bilogora County
    • in Virovitica for the territory of Virovitica-Podravina County
    • in Požega for the territory of Požega-Slavonia County
    • in Slavonski Brod for the territory of Brod-Posavina County
    • in Vukovar for the territory of Vukovar-Syrmia County
    • in Sisak for the territory of Sisak-Moslavina County
    • in Šibenik for the territory of Šibenik-Knin County.

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