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YEAR: XLVI.                                                                          ZAGREB, 11 AUGUST, 2009                                                               NUMBER: 11.1.1/2.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

NUMBER AND STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, JUNE 2009

 

The comparison of the number of legal entities in the Register of the Central Bureau of Statistics and active legal entities in administrative registers shows that the share of legal entities was lower than a half (47.5%).

 

This difference is the smallest in trade companies, as entities of this kind are either harmonised with or newly created according to the Company Law. It should be noted, though, that about 22.7% of those entities were not active.

 

Enterprises and co-operatives are entities having the greatest absolute difference, which relates mostly to entities that failed to submit a request for harmonising with the Company Law. After this procedure has been finished, such entities will be deleted from the Register. The majority of active entities in this category (about 6 000) will be transferred to the category of trade companies, through the harmonisation procedure.

 

Within the category of institutions, bodies, associations and organisations, the difference between two kinds of data is not the consequence of their inactivity as in the two previous categories. The treatment of registration of entities of this kind in the Register of the Central Bureau of Statistics differs from registration procedures in other administrative registers. For example, each body of local and regional self-government units is registered individually in the Register of the Central Bureau of Statistics, while in administrative registers, what is taken into consideration are accounts through which entities run their business.

 

Data on the number of entities in crafts and trades and free lances relate to the number of self-employed entrepreneurs, with or without employees, as well as persons who are engaged in professional activity, according to the Pension Insurance records.

 

 

1.   BUSINESS ENTITIES, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 

Number ofregisteredlegal entities

Number ofactive entities

Share of activelegal entities

 

 

 

 

Total

266 735

126 608

47,5

 

 

 

 

Trade companies

131 647

101 757

77,3

 

 

 

 

Enterprises and co-operatives

79 347

5 968

7,5

 

 

 

 

Institutions, bodies, associations and organisations

55 741

18 883

33,9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entities in crafts and trades and free lances

-

99 487

-

 

 

1)     Including government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units

 

 

2.    STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, BY ACTIVITY AND ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 

Number of legal entities

Active legal entities

Crafts and
trades and free lances
 

Registered

 

Structure of
registered
legalentities

Active

Structure
of activelegal
entities

Profit

 

Non-profit
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

266 735

100

126 608

100

107 725

18 883

99 487

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  A   Agriculture, forestry and fishing

5 224

2,0

2 717

2,1

2 714

3

3 338

  B   Mining and quarrying

409

0,2

280

0,2

280

-

128

  C   Manufacturing

22 490

8,4

12 631

10,0

12627

4

11 133

  D   Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning
        supply

275

0,1

227

0,2

226

1

6

  E   Water supply; sewerage, waste management
        and remediation activities

822

0,3

594

0,5

588

6

61

  F   Construction

23 296

8,7

14 582

11,5

14 580

2

12 036

  G   Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor
        vehicles and motorcycles

90 306

33,9

34 120

26,9

33 938

182

15 605

  H   Transportation and storage

8 014

3,0

3 876

3,1

3 843

33

7 510

  I     Accommodation and food service activities

10 682

4,0

5 957

4,7

5 907

50

11 892

  J    Information and communication

6 372

2,4

4 275

3,4

4 251

24

911

  K   Financial and insurance activities

1 776

0,7

982

0,8

980

2

435

  L    Real estate activities

6 065

2,3

5 002

4,0

5 002

-

448

  M   Professional, scientific and technical activities

22 215

8,3

14 489

11,4

14 362

127

8 482

  N   Administrative and support service activities

6 393

2,4

3 941

3,1

3937

4

1 779

  O   Public administration and defence; compulsory
        social security

3 523

1,3

1 220

1,0

19

1 201

7 599

  P   Education

3 453

1,3

2 848

2,2

612

2 236

119

  Q   Human health and social work activities

3 630

1,4

2 145

1,7

308

1 837

6 207

  R   Arts, entertainment and recreation

17 358

6,5

5 386

4,3

928

4 458

2 807

  S   Other service activities

34 378

12,9

11 336

9,0

2 623

8 713

8 530

  T   Activities of households as employers;
        undifferentiated goods and services producing
        activities of households for own use

-

-

-

-

-

-

83

  U   Activities of extraterritorial organisations and
        bodies

54

0,0

-

-

-

-

-

Unknown

-

-

-

-

-

-

378

 

 

 

 

 

Data on the structure of business entities by economic activities show that more than three quarters of both registered and active entities belong to the following four activity sections: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles with 33.9% registered and 26.9% active entities; Manufacturing with 8.4% registered and 10.0% active entities; Professional, scientific and technical activities with 8.3% registered and 11.4% active entities, and Other service activities with 12.9% registered and 9.0% active entities.

 

The share of profit entities in the total active business entities was 85.1%. Their structure by economic activities shows that 73.6% of them belong to five activity sections in the following order: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles 31.5%; Professional, scientific and technical activities 13.3%; Manufacturing 11.7%; Construction 13.5% and Transportation and storage 3.6%.

 

 

The share of non-profit active entities was 14.9%. Less than a half of them are classified into the activity section Other service activities, while the remaining half is distributed between Education (11.8%), Human health and social work activities (9.7%) and Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (6.4%).

 

The structure of entities in crafts and trades and free lances by economic activities is much more balanced than the structure of legal entities. Although Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles is again the most frequent crafts and free lances activity section , its share is nevertheless slightly lower than a third. Besides trade, four other activities cover two thirds of the total number of entities.

 

3.  STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, BY OWNERSHIP TYPES AND NKD 2007. SECTIONS, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 

Total

Ownership types

State ownership

Private ownership

Co-operative
ownership

Mixed ownership

No ownership

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

126 608

1 037

0,8

103 339

81,6

1 800

1,4

1 547

1,2

18 885

14,9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  A   Agriculture, forestry and fishing

2 717

17

0,6

1 863

68,6

780

28,7

54

2,0

3

0,1

  B   Mining and quarrying

280

8

2,9

250

89,3

7

2,5

15

5,4

-

-

  C   Manufacturing

12 631

137

1,1

11 872

94,0

213

1,7

405

3,2

4

0,0

  D   Electricity, gas, steam and air
        conditioning supply

227

37

16,3

178

78,4

2

0,9

9

4,0

1

0,4

  E   Water supply; sewerage, waste
        management and remediation
        activities

594

199

33,5

364

61,3

11

1,9

14

2,4

6

1,0

 

3.    STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, BY OWNERSHIP TYPES AND NKD 2007. SECTIONS, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

(continued)

 

Total

Ownership types

State ownership

Private ownership

Co-operative
ownership

Mixed ownership

No ownership

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

The number
of legal entities

Share
in total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  F   Construction

14 582

96

0,7

14 198

97,4

163

1,1

123

0,8

2

0,0

  G   Wholesale and retail trade; repair
        of motorvehicles and motorcycles

34 120

82

0,2

33 277

97,5

209

0,6

370

1,1

182

0,5

  H   Transportation and storage

3 876

64

1,7

3 661

94,5

43

1,1

75

1,9

33

0,9

  I     Accommodation and food service
        activities

5 957

58

1,0

5 615

94,3

89

1,5

144

2,4

51

0,9

  J    Information and communication

4 275

47

1,1

4 125

96,5

15

0,4

64

1,5

24

0,6

  K   Financial and insurance activities

982

19

1,9

836

85,1

106

10,8

19

1,9

2

0,2

  L    Real estate activities

5 002

42

0,8

4 929

98,5

3

0,1

28

0,6

-

-

  M   Professional, scientific and
        technical activities

14 489

133

0,9

14 009

96,7

61

0,4

159

1,1

127

0,9

  N   Administrative and support
        service activities

3 941

29

0,7

3 846

97,6

28

0,7

34

0,9

4

0,1

  O   Public administration and defence;
        compulsory social security

1 220

12

1,0

6

0,5

1

0,1

-

-

1 201

98,4

  P   Education

2 848

5

0,2

599

21,0

3

0,1

5

0,2

2 236

78,5

  Q   Human health and social work
        activities

2 145

-

-

284

13,2

22

1,0

2

0,1

1 837

85,6

  R   Arts, entertainment andrecreation

5 386

29

0,5

882

16,4

7

0,1

9

0,2

4 459

82,8

  S   Other service activities

11 336

23

0,2

2545

22,5

37

0,3

18

0,2

8 713

76,9

  T   Activities of households as
        employers; undifferentiated
        goods and services producing
        activities of households for own use

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

  U   Activities of extraterritorial
        organisations and bodies

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The structure of active legal entities by ownership types shows that the private ownership predominated with 81.7% entities, 0.8% of entities were owned by the state, 1.2% of them were in the mixed ownership and only 1.4% of entities were in co-operative ownership, while the ownership of 14.9% legal entities was not monitored.

 

The ownership structure by activities shows that privately owned entities were predominant in services, e.g. Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles had the share of 97.5%, Real estate activities of 98.5% and Transportation and storage of 94.5%. Approximately the same share of private ownership existed in the productive activities such as Construction, 97.4%, Manufacturing, 94.0%, and Agriculture, forestry and fishing, 68.6%.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.   NUMBER OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY NUMBER OF PERSONS IN EMPLOYMENT, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 


Total

Number of persons in employment

0

1 – 9

10 – 49

50 – 249

250 – 499

500 and more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

126 608

58 367

53 085

11 330

3 201

353

272

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  A   Agriculture, forestry and fishing

2 717

1 454

977

227

49

4

6

  B   Mining and quarrying

280

128

80

51

17

2

2

  C   Manufacturing

12 631

4 298

5 643

1 818

675

118

79

  D   Electricity, gas, steam and air
        conditioning supply

227

165

24

18

14

2

4

  E   Water supply; sewerage, waste
        management and remediation activities

594

164

164

163

93

10

-

  F   Construction

14 582

6 890

5 881

1 470

291

35

15

  G   Wholesale and retail trade; repai
        r of motor vehicles and motorcycles

34 120

12 961

17 690

2 996

399

38

36

  H   Transportation and storage

3 876

1 374

2 054

327

88

16

17

  I     Accommodation and food service
        activities

5 957

2 992

2 311

511

114

22

7

  J    Information and communication

4 275

1 884

1 952

377

49

6

7

  K   Financial and insurance activities

982

318

510

95

34

7

18

  L    Real estate activities

5 002

4 016

901

77

7

-

1

  M   Professional, scientific and technical activities

14 489

5 871

7 672

824

111

6

5

  N   Administrative and support service activities

3 941

2 189

1 405

246

75

15

11

  O   Public administration and defence;
        compulsory social security

1 220

151

443

441

145

22

18

  P   Education

2 848

387

720

912

814

11

4

  Q   Human health and social work activities

2 145

858

728

339

159

28

33

  R   Arts, entertainment and recreation

5 386

3 961

1 131

234

43

9

8

  S   Other service activities

11 336

8 306

2 799

204

24

2

1

  T   Activities of households as employers;
        undifferentiated goods and services producing            activities of households for own use

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

  U   Activities of extraterritorial organisations and
        bodies

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

By examining the structure of active legal entities according to the number of persons in paid employment, it should be noted that the highest share of 46.1% belonged to entities without persons in employment, followed by 41.9% entities employing 1 – 9 persons, 8.9% entities employing
10 – 49 persons, 2.5% medium-sized entities employing 50 – 249 persons, while entities employing more than 250 persons had the share of only 0.5%.

 

It should be noted that, according to economic activities, the structure of medium-sized and large entities was more uniform than that of small ones. The largest part of small entities belonged to the Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles. The share of entities in this activity was rapidly decreasing in relation to the size of entities. Medium-sized entities were mostly represented in Manufacturing (the share of 21.1%). Moreover, there were 33.4% of large entities recorded in this activity.

 

 

5.   TRADE COMPANIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS AND ACTIVITY, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 

Legal organisational forms

Total

Joint stock
companies

Limited liability
companies

Limited
partnerships

Public trade
companies

Main subsidaries
of foreign trade
companies or
individual traders

Other legal forms

 


Registered


Active


Registered


Active


Registered


Active


Registered


Active


Registered


Active


Registered


Active


Registered


Active

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Total

131 647

101 757

1 715

1 394

128 579

99 451

101

76

595

414

497

310

160

112

A   Agriculture, forestry and fishing

2 424

1 873

65

49

2 350

1 820

3

2

6

2

-

-

-

-

B   Mining and quarrying

333

271

15

14

316

255

-

-

-

-

2

2

-

-

C   Manufacturing

14 822

11 849

551

445

14 182

11 346

3

1

13

5

68

48

5

4

D   Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning
      supply

264

224

6

5

256

218

1

-

-

-

1

1

-

-

E   Water supply; sewerage, waste management
      and remediation activities

697

569

13

10

676

554

-

-

-

-

8

5

-

-

F   Construction

17 837

14 106

175

129

17 355

13 774

12

10

131

91

163

101

1

1

G   Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor
      vehicles and motorcycles

44 983

31 901

244

178

44 581

31 634

15

8

28

12

111

67

4

2

H   Transportation and storage

4 740

3 619

76

66

4 635

3 532

-

-

9

7

19

13

1

1

I     Accommodation and food service activities

7 730

5 711

169

151

7 545

5 553

-

-

6

2

8

4

2

1

J    Information and communication

4 971

4 098

61

50

4 880

4 027

4

4

8

6

17

10

1

1

K   Financial and insurance activities

1 093

854

127

113

931

709

1

1

1

1

2

-

31

30

L    Real estate activities

5 938

4 990

23

21

5 889

4 947

9

8

8

7

7

5

2

2

M   Professional, scientific and technical
      activities

15 881

13 613

137

123

15 269

13 161

32

21

368

265

75

43

-

-

N   Administrative and support service activities

4 766

3 823

22

17

4 701

3 766

19

19

12

12

12

9

-

-

O   Public administration and defence;
      compulsory social security

20

18

2

2

12

10

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

6

P   Education

690

580

3

3

685

575

-

-

1

1

1

1

-

-

Q   Human health and social work activities

317

286

1

1

316

285

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

R   Arts, entertainment and recreation

1 172

892

16

10

1 155

881

1

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

S   Other service activities

2 969

2 480

9

7

2 845

2 404

1

1

4

3

3

1

107

64

T   Activities of households as employers;      undifferentiated goods – and services –
      producing activities of households for own use

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

U   Activities of extraterritorial organisations and
      bodies

                       

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

 

Limited liability companies were markedly predominant in the structure of trade companies by legal organisational forms, with the share of 97.7% of registered and 97.7% of active companies. Joint stock companies followed, with the share of 1.3% of registered and 1.4% of active companies. Other legal forms of trade companies had the share of the remaining 1.0%.

 

6.   REGISTERED NON-PROFIT LEGAL ENTITIES, ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS AND BY ACTIVITY AND LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 

Total
registered
legal
entities

Share of
active legal
entities

Groups of legal constitutional formation

Associations, institutions,
economic co-operations,
funds, legislation,
foundations, political parties, public
organisations, civil
associations and other
organisations

State
government bodies
and bodies of local
and regional
self-government
units

Not harmonised
enterprises,
institutions,
co-operatives and
public bodies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

55 741

33,9

52 316

3 031

394

 

 

 

 

 

 

  A   Agriculture, forestry and fishing

5

60,0

5

-

-

  B   Mining and quarrying

-

-

-

-

-

  C   Manufacturing

64

6,3

6

-

58

  D   Electricity, gas, steam and air
        conditioning supply

2

50,0

1

-

1

  E   Water supply; sewerage, waste
        management and remediation activities

7

85,7

6

-

1

  F   Construction

68

2,9

1

-

67

  G   Wholesale and retail trade; repai r of
        motorvehicles and motorcycles

209

87,1

191

-

18

  H   Transportation and storage

41

80,5

35

-

6

  I     Accommodation and food service activities

59

84,7

54

-

5

  J    Information and communication

68

35,3

52

-

16

  K   Financial and insurance activities

4

50,0

4

-

-

  L    Real estate activities

-

-

-

-

-

  M   Professional, scientific and technical
        activities

176

72,2

140

-

36

  N   Administrative and support service
        activities

6

66,7

4

-

2

  O   Public administration and defence;
        compulsory social security

3 501

34,3

466

3 031

4

  P   Education

2 444

91,5

2 290

-

154

  Q   Human health and social work activities

3 265

56,3

3 239

-

26

  R   Arts, entertainment and recreation

15 674

28,4

15 674

-

-

  S   Other service activities

30 094

29,0

30 094

-

-

  T   Activities of households as employers;
        undifferentiated goods and services
        producing activities of households for
        own use

-

-

-

-

-

  U   Activities of extraterritorial organisations                     and bodies

54

0,0

54

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

The structure of registered non-profit legal entities by legal forms shows that associations, institutions, co-operations, funds, etc. had the share of 93.9%, state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units had the share of 5.4% and the remaining 0.7% were not harmonised entities.

 

Considering their activity, there were 33.9% active ones. Their structure by activities shows that they were entities belonging to four activity sections: Other service activities, with as much as 54.0% registered, and out of them only 29.0% active entities, Public administration and defence; compulsory social security, with 6.3% registered, and out of them 34.3% active entities, Human health and social work activities, with the similar share of registered and active entities, and Education, with only 4.4% of registered, but with the largest share of active entities (91.5%).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.   STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, BY COUNTIES, SITUATION AS ON 30 JUNE 2009

 

Total registered
legal entities

Trade companies

Enterprises and co-operatives

Registered institutions, bodies, associations and
organisations

Entities in crafts and trades and
free lances

Registered

Active

Registered

Active

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Croatia

266 735

131 647

101 757

79 347

5 968

55 741

99 487

County of Zagreb

16 352

7 620

6 090

5 778

549

2 954

6 514

County of Krapina-Zagorje

4 826

1 852

1 480

1 391

142

1 583

2 889

County of Sisak-Moslavina

6 589

1 916

1 538

2 100

237

2 573

2 580

County of Karlovac

5 605

2 307

1 861

1 406

121

1 892

2 518

County of Varaždin

7 561

3 618

2 892

1 804

107

2 139

3 238

County of Koprivnica-Križevci

4 570

1 921

1 391

1 241

255

1 408

1 695

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

5 138

2 270

1 601

1 136

145

1 732

1 826

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

22 491

12 316

9 372

6 073

393

4 102

10 415

County of Lika-Senj

2 144

810

633

448

50

886

1 202

County of Virovitica-Podravina

2 900

1 097

842

582

92

1 221

1 266

County of Požega-Slavonia

2 857

869

674

943

74

1 045

1 208

County of Slavonski Brod-Posavina

5 573

2 231

1 583

1 582

105

1 760

3 042

County of Zadar

8 302

3 738

2 991

2 636

249

1 928

5 223

County of Osijek-Baranja

10 092

5 265

4 022

730

167

4 097

4 835

County of Šibenik-Knin

6 008

2 568

1 987

1 969

153

1 471

2 847

County of Vukovar-Sirmium

4 645

2 077

1 485

428

125

2 140

3 002

County of Split-Dalmatia

32 548

14 814

11 437

12 605

365

5 129

12 139

County of Istria

20 557

11 928

9 527

5 516

262

3 113

8 439

County of Dubrovnik-Neretva

6 693

3 924

3 322

657

115

2 112

3 662

County of Međimurje

5 855

2 950

2 432

1 574

282

1 331

1 795

City of Zagreb

85 429

45 556

34 597

28 748

1 980

11 125

19 152

 

 

 

 

Data on territorial distribution of business entities at the county level   show that slightly less than one third of the total number of registered business entities (legal entities) were situated in the City of Zagreb. The City of Zagreb, however, had significantly lower share in entities in crafts and free lances (19.3%). The County of Split-Dalmatia followed, with the share of 12.2% of both legal entities and natural persons.

 

Other three counties had their share larger than 5% of registered legal entities: the County of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, 8.4%, the County of Istria, 7.7%, and the County of Zagreb, 6.1%. The number of natural persons came in the same order.

 

The territorial structure of active trade companies, enterprises and co-operatives was yet different, as compared to the structure of the registered ones. Hence, the City of Zagreb had the share of 34.6% of registered and 34.0% of active entities, while the share of the second largest county, the County of Split-Dalmatia, was 11.2% of active and 11.3% of registered entities.

 

 

8.    CREATING, DELETING AND HARMONISING OF REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITIES, 2008 AND 2009

 

2008.

2009.

 

I. - III.

IV. – VI.

VII. – IX.

X. - XII.

I. - III.

IV. – VI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating

3 783

3 499

2 997

3 240

2 977

2 859

Trade companies

2 935

2 637

2 333

2 379

2 028

2 011

Other

848

862

664

861

949

848

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deleting

850

281

649

646

2 679

398

Enterprises

35

6

106

10

53

6

Trade companies

794

158

503

425

2 562

293

Other

21

117

40

211

64

99

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harmonising according to Company Law

397

162

366

303

1 579

387

 

 

 

 

 

Data on changes of registered entities are divided into three groups: creations, deletions and harmonisations. They show that the number of creations increased, while the number of deletions and harmonisations stagnated in the respective period.

 

The share of trade companies in the number of newly created entities in the given period was approximately two thirds.

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

 

Sources and methods of data collection

 

Based on the Act on the National Classification of Activities (NN, No. 98/94), the Decision on the National Classification of Activities − NKD 2007. (NN, Nos. 58/07 and 72/07) and the Regulation on the Classification of Business Entities according to the National Classification of Activities − NKD 2007. (NN, No. 80/07), the Central Bureau of Statistics keeps the Register of Business Entities. The Register comprises legal entities, state govermment bodies, and bodies of local and regional self-goverment units as well as parts of these entities, which means that natural persons that are engaged in activities according to regulations are not, for now, included in the Register.

 

By registration, each business entity is assigned a seven-digit registration number, while its constituent parts, beside that number, are assigned also an additional four-digit ordinal number.

 

Moreover, each business entity and its part are assigned an activity code according to the NKD 2007.

 

The NKD 2007. is based on the European classification of economic activities − NACE, Rev. 2 – that is obligatory for the EU Member States.

 

Registered business entities are classified according to their prevailing activities in such a way that the subclass of the main activity is defined, according to the NKD 2007. When a business entity is, by a decision on registration with the competent authority or by law, appointed a higher class, the first classification by the NKD 2007. is made upon the proposal of the business entity. Every subsequent classification of the business entity resulting in the change of the main activity is made in the following cases:

 

1)  upon the request of the business entity and

2)  upon official duty, based on the change of the decision on registration with the competent authory or change in the law, or based on statistical survey results, respectively.

 

The activity of the constituent parts of a business entity is established by the decision on registration with the competent authority or by the law
on establishment of the activity of the business entity they make part of.

 

Registration change and withdrawal of business entities and their constituent parts are daily updated in the Register. The sources for the Register of Business Entities are as follows:

 

1)  Registers kept by:

      - trade courts

      -  ministries (e.g. the Ministry of Justice,
         the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare)

      -  offices of state administration in counties
      -  other registration bodies

2)     Laws, decisions and other legal documents published in Narodne novine.

 

Registered entities are structured according to the legal basis as follows:

 

-   trade companies, enterprises, co-operatives and institutions are registered in the Register upon the decision of registration bodies (trade courts), making 80.83% of registered entities in the Register

-   state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units registered in the Register according to the law, with a share of 1.14%, and

-   other entities, such as associations, societies and foundations, which are registered in the Register according to specific laws, with a share of 18.3%.

 

Difficulties in updating of significant proportion of units in the register are the consequence of long-term transition periods during which register bodies were harmonising entities according to the new law regulations. That postponed the procedure of deleting entities which have not submitted the request for harmonisation with the new regulations.

 

A lack in the coverage of the Register is related to legal entities that carry out activities of crafts and free lance.

 

In order to make available data as useful as possible, the Register data were entities linked, using this seven-digit registration number as a key, with administrative databases. In this way, the usefulness of data in this Release was improved.

 

Definitions

 

Business entities are legal entities and natural persons that are engaged in activities according to regulations as well as state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units.

 

Registered legal entities are units that are registered in The Register of Business Entities kept by the Central Bureau of Statistics. These are: trade companies, enterprises, institutions, co-operatives, associations, political parties and other non-harmonised units which held a legal subjectivity status according to previous laws, as well as state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self goverment bodies.

 

Active legal entities are units that are registered in the Register of Business Entities, as listed in the previous definition, for which the active or non-active status was determined upon data from the register of tax payers (annual tax return for 2007) and data from the Fina’s Register of Annual Financial Reports (annual financial report for 2007). In order to update those data, all changes of registered units have been added to matching data (creating, deleting and updating) over the period from January 2008 to June 2009, according to procedures of keeping the Register of Business Entities.

 

Natural persons are units that carry out activities in line with regulations, and those are crafts and trades and different kinds of free lances. Data on these units are given according to the records of active insured persons in the Pension Fund.

 

Main activity is an activity established according to the largest share in the total value added in the case of business entities that make profit through production, trade, or rendering of services on the market or by the largest share in the number of persons in employment according to the payroll and gross paid-off salaries in the case of business entities that do not make profit through production, trade and rendering of services on the market.

 

Registration number is a permanent identification characteristic of each particular business entity that is used in all statistical surveys and is compulsory in the data exchange with courts, state govermment bodies local and regional self-govermment bodies as well as with legal entities with public authorities. It is determined by the allocation of the control number according to module 11.

 

Legal organisational form is the characteristic of registered units determined by law upon which the unit was created (e.g. joint-stock companies, limited liability companies, etc. according to the Company Law).

 

 

Kind of ownership is the characteristic of units entered into the Register of Business Entities which indicates the ownership structure of the unit.

 

Number of persons in employment is the feature used for indicating the size and structure of business entities. It is derived from the Fina’s annual financial reports. In order to update this feature, as indicated in tables, data have been harmonised with regular monthly statistical survey that covers employment.

 

 

Abbreviations

 

e.g.              for example (from Latin: exempli gratia)

etc.              and so on (from Latin: et cetera)

EU                European Union

Fina              Financial Agency

NKD 2007.   National Classification of Activities, 2007 version

NN                Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of
                    Croatia

 

Symbols

 

-       no occurrence

0,0   value not zero but less than 0.05 of the unit of measure used