The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Croatia () 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.
List of ministers MinisterPartyTerm startTerm endDays in officeIvan ČermakHDZ 20 May 1993 12 October 1993 Nadan VidoševićHDZ 12 October 1993 18 September 1995 Zlatko MatešaHDZ 18 September 1995 7 November 1995 Davor ŠternHDZ 7 November 1995 14 April 1997 Nenad PorgesHDZ 14 April 1997 27 January 2000 Goranko FižulićHSLS 27 January 2000 21 March 2002 Hrvoje VojkovićHSLS 21 March 2002 30 July 2002 Ljubo JurčićInd. 30 July 2002 23 December 2003 Branko VukelićHDZ 23 December 2003 12 January 2008 Damir PolančecHDZ 12 January 2008 30 October 2009 Đuro PopijačHDZ 19 November 2009 23 December 2011 Radimir ČačićHNS-LD 23 December 2011 14 November 2012 Tamara Obradović-Mazal (acting)Ind. 14 November 2012 16 November 2012 Ivan VrdoljakHNS-LD 16 November 2012 22 January 2016 Tomislav PanenićMost 22 January 2016 19 October 2016 Martina DalićHDZ 19 October 2016 14 May 2018 Darko HorvatHDZ 25 May 2018 23 July 2020 Tomislav ĆorićHDZ 23 July 2020 29 April 2022 Davor FilipovićHDZ 29 April 2022 12 December 2023 Damir HabijanHDZ 12 December 2023 17 May 2024 Ante ŠušnjarHDZ 17 May 2024 present –
Ministers of Crafts, Small and Mid-sized Entrepreneurship (2000–2003) MinisterPartyTerm startTerm endDays in officeŽeljko PecekHSS 27 January 2000 23 December 2003
Ministers of Entrepreneurship and Crafts (2011–2016)
MinisterPartyTerm startTerm endDays in officeGordan MarasSDP 23 December 2011 22 January 2016 Darko HorvatHDZ 22 January 2016 19 October 2016
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 (; post held by Stjepan Zdunić) and the minister of energy and industry (; Božo Udovičić). In the Cabinet of Franjo Gregurić, the former minister became the minister of economic development (), and there was also a minister of trade (; Petar Kriste, Branko Mikša). The Cabinet of Hrvoje Šarinić in turn included the minister of industry, shipbuilding and energy (; Franjo Kajfež) and the minister of tourism and trade (; 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. 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.
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