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Work Registration Certificate - Up to 30 Days

CroatiaWork

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

Short contracted work for ten listed categories: trainers/educators of staff of Croatian legal or natural persons; staff of a foreign machinery or equipment producer delivering, assembling or servicing it under warranty; persons registered for undertaking services; participants at fairs or exhibitions where their employer exhibits; circus or amusement-park employees; participants in fashion-editorial or advertising shoots; accompanying reporting, organisational and technical staff at sports events; authors and performers in musical, stage and dancing arts with accompanying staff; persons in professional training in a company linked to a foreign employer; auditing and consulting service providers.

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  • chars 18240-19522
    The following categories of third-country nationals may work for up to 30 days in a calendar year on the basis of a work registration certificate: 1. those who carry out professional training, development or education of persons employed with legal and natural persons in the Republic of Croatia 2. those employed with a foreign employer who is a producer of machinery or equipment and who are arriving for the purpose of their delivery, assembly or service, and their work is a condition for exercising warranty rights 3. natural persons and those employed with legal persons from third countries registered for performing undertaking services in line with the legislation governing undertaking activities 4. those participating at fairs or exhibitions where their employer is an exhibitor 5. employees in circuses or amusement parks 6. those participating in shooting of fashion editorials or advertising campaigns 7. accompanying reporting, organisational and technical staff at sports events and competitions 8. authors and performers in musical, stage and dancing arts, as well as the accompanying reporting, organisational and technical staff 9. those attending professional training in a company linked to a foreign employer 10. providers of auditing and consulting services.

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The application is filed either by the third-country national or by the legal or natural person who will use their services or work, at the competent police administration/station for the work location or that person's head office, before any work begins.

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  • chars 19580-19981
    A third-country national, legal or natural person who will be using the services or work of the third-country national shall submit an application for the issuance of a work registration certificate at the competent police administration or police station according to the location where the activities will be performed or the head office of the legal or natural person, prior to commencing any work.

What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

What distinguishes this route is that the work falls within one of the ten listed categories of short contracted work and is based on a concluded contract; the written application encloses only the relevant contract and the third-country national's valid foreign travel document. The official source does not state qualification, experience, salary or labour-market requirements.

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Limits of the record
  • no occupation, qualification, salary or labour-market test condition is stated beyond the category list
  • chars 20024-20360
    When submitting a written application for the issuance of a work registration certificate, a third-country national or a legal or natural person who will be using the services or work of a third-country national has to enclose the following: 1. relevant contract concluded 2. valid foreign travel document of the third-country national.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The holder may work for the same employer or service user throughout the territory of Croatia and does not need a stay and work permit. The official source does not state whether family members may accompany the holder.

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Limits of the record
  • family accompaniment is not stated; the family-reunification page excludes family members of 'other purposes' stays, service providers and posted workers but does not mention certificate holders
  • chars 20433-20667
    A third-country national may work for the same employer or service user throughout the territory of the Republic of Croatia on the basis of an issued work registration certificate and he does not have to obtain a stay and work permit.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

Issued for up to 30 days in a calendar year (the other certificate variant runs to 90 days). The official source does not state a renewal rule or a longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • no renewal or extension rule is stated
  • no longer-term residence direction is stated
  • chars 15746-15866
    A work registration certificate for performing contracted work may be issued for up to 90 or 30 days in a calendar year.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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