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YEAR: XLVI.                                                                       ZAGREB, 9 FEBRUARY, 2009                                                           NUMBER: 11.1.1/4.

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

NUMBER AND STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, DECEMBER 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 (48.9%).

 

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 21.5% 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 31 DECEMBER 2009

 

Number of registered legal entities

Number of active entities

Share of active legal entities

 

 

 

 

Total

269 856

131 886

48,9

 

 

 

 

Trade companies

134 390

105 513

78,5

 

 

 

 

Enterprises and co-operatives

78 597

5 893

7,5

 

 

 

 

Institutions, bodies, associations and organisations

56 869

20 475

36,0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entities in crafts and trades and free lances

-

96 776

-

 

 

2.   STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, BY ACTIVITY AND ACCORDING TO NKD 2007. SECTIONS, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 2009

 

Number of legal entities

Active legal entities

Crafts and
trades and free lances
 

Registered

Structure of
registered
legal entities

Active

Structure
of active legal
entities

Profit

Non-profit
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

269 856

100

131 886

100

111 411

20 475

96 776

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A     Agriculture, forestry and fishing

5 283

2,0

2 816

2,1

2 813

3

3 288

B     Mining and quarrying

411

0,2

286

0,2

286

-

117

C     Manufacturing

22 649

8,4

13 001

9,9

12 997

4

10 765

D     Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

310

0,1

264

0,2

263

1

-

E     Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

854

0,3

627

0,5

621

6

57

F     Construction

23 651

8,8

15 090

11,4

15 089

1

11 475

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

90 158

33,4

34 871

26,4

34 688

183

14 811

H     Transportation and storage

8 059

3,0

3 997

3,0

3 964

33

7 200

I       Accommodation and food service activities

10 935

4,1

6 290

4,8

6 240

50

11 180

J      Information and communication

6 530

2,4

4 474

3,4

4 450

24

927

K     Financial and insurance activities

1 958

0,7

1 181

0,9

1 001

180

419

L      Real estate activities

6 242

2,3

5 183

3,9

5 183

-

410

M     Professional, scientific and technical activities

22 667

8,4

15 049

11,4

14 925

124

8 423

N     Administrative and support service activities

6 544

2,4

4 132

3,1

4 127

5

1 677

O     Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

3 160

1,2

1 221

0,9

19

1 202

8 003

P     Education

3 487

1,3

2 895

2,2

635

2 260

127

Q     Human health and social work activities

3 693

1,4

2 226

1,7

344

1 882

6 251

R     Arts, entertainment and recreation

17 755

6,6

5 822

4,4

982

4 840

2 783

S     Other service activities

35 456

13,1

12 461

9,4

2 784

9 677

8 441

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

-

-

-

-

-

-

76

U     Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies

54

0,0

-

-

-

-

-

Unknown

-

-

-

-

-

-

346

 

 

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 33.4% registered and 26.4% active entities; Manufacturing with 8.4% registered and 9.9% active entities; Professional, scientific and technical activities with 8.4% registered and 11.4% active entities, and Other service activities with 13.1% registered and 9.4% active entities.

 

The share of profit entities in the total active business entities was 84.5%. Their structure by economic activities shows that 73.3% of them belong to five activity sections in the following order: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles 31.1%; Professional, scientific and technical activities 13.4%; Manufacturing 11.7%; Construction 13.5% and Transportation and storage 3.6%.

 

The share of non-profit active entities was 15.5%. Less than a half of them are classified into the activity section Other service activities, while the remaining half is distributed between Education (11.0%), Human health and social work activities (9.2%) and Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (5.9%).

 

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 higher than one sixth. Besides trade, three other activities cover one half of the total number of entities.

 

 

3.   STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES, BY OWNERSHIP TYPES AND NKD 2007. SECTIONS, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 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

131 886

1 044

0,8

106 896

81,1

1 904

1,4

1 565

1,2

20 477

15,5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A     Agriculture, forestry and fishing

2 816

16

0,6

1 932

68,6

812

28,8

53

1,9

3

0,1

B     Mining and quarrying

286

8

2,8

256

89,5

7

2,4

15

5,2

-

-

C     Manufacturing

13 001

135

1,0

12 229

94,1

226

1,7

407

3,1

4

0,0

 D    Electricity, gas, steam and air
        conditioning supply

264

37

14,0

214

81,1

2

0,8

10

3,8

1

0,4

E     Water supply; sewerage, waste
        management and remediation
        activities

627

204

32,5

392

62,5

11

1,8

14

2,2

6

1,0

F     Construction

15 090

96

0,6

14 696

97,4

170

1,1

127

0,8

1

0,0

G     Wholesale and retail trade; repair
        of motorvehicles and motorcycles

34 871

82

0,2

34 004

97,5

229

0,7

373

1,1

183

0,5

H     Transportation and storage

3 997

64

1,6

3 780

94,6

45

1,1

75

1,9

33

0,8

I       Accommodation and food service
        activities

6 290

58

0,9

5 935

94,4

101

1,6

145

2,3

51

0,8

J      Information and communication

4 474

46

1,0

4 323

96,6

18

0,4

63

1,4

24

0,5

K     Financial and insurance activities

1 181

19

1,6

861

72,9

102

8,6

19

1,6

180

15,2

L      Real estate activities

5 183

42

0,8

5 104

98,5

4

0,1

33

0,6

-

-

M     Professional, scientific and technical
        activities

15 049

135

0,9

14 559

96,7

68

0,5

163

1,1

124

0,8

N     Administrative and support service
        activities

4 132

29

0,7

4 034

97,6

30

0,7

34

0,8

5

0,1

O     Public administration and defence;
        compulsory social security

1 221

12

1,0

6

0,5

1

0,1

-

-

1 202

98,4

P     Education

2 895

5

0,2

622

21,5

3

0,1

5

0,2

2 260

78,1

Q     Human health and social work activities

2 226

-

-

316

14,2

26

1,2

2

0,1

1 882

84,5

R     Arts, entertainment and recreation

5 822

30

0,5

934

16,0

9

0,2

8

0,1

4 841

83,2

S     Other service activities

12 461

26

0,2

2 699

21,7

40

0,3

19

0,2

9 677

77,7

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 81.1% 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 15.5% 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 94.6%. Approximately the same share of private ownership existed in the productive activities such as Construction, 97.4%, Manufacturing, 94.1%, 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 31 DECEMBER 2009

 

Total

Number of persons in employment

0

1 – 9

10 – 49

50 – 249

250 – 499

500 and more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

131 886

64 062

52 832

11 191

3 178

352

271

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A     Agriculture, forestry and fishing

2 816

1 563

971

225

48

3

6

B     Mining and quarrying

286

134

80

51

17

2

2

C     Manufacturing

13 001

4 657

5 639

1 827

679

119

80

 D    Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

264

202

24

18

14

2

4

E     Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

627

191

164

167

95

10

-

F     Construction

15 090

7 397

5 884

1 466

292

36

15

G     Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motorvehicles and motorcycles

34 871

13 799

17 628

2 976

396

37

35

H     Transportation and storage

3 997

1 500

2 050

328

87

16

16

I       Accommodation and food service activities

6 290

3 329

2 312

508

113

21

7

J      Information and communication

4 474

2 077

1 960

375

49

6

7

K     Financial and insurance activities

1 181

520

507

94

34

8

18

L      Real estate activities

5 183

4 200

896

79

7

-

1

M     Professional, scientific and technical  activities

15 049

6 437

7 673

819

109

6

5

N     Administrative and support service activities

4 132

2 382

1 402

246

76

15

11

O     Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

1 221

461

270

327

124

21

18

P     Education

2 895

439

718

910

813

11

4

Q     Human health and social work activities

2 226

938

729

339

159

28

33

R     Arts, entertainment and recreation

5 822

4 396

1 132

234

43

9

8

S     Other service activities

12 461

9 440

2 793

202

23

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 48.6% belonged to entities without persons in employment, followed by 40.1% entities employing 1 – 9 persons, 8.5% entities employing 10 – 49 persons, 2.4% 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 21.4%). Moreover, there were 33.8% 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 31 DECEMBER 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

134 390

105 513

1 644

1 381

131 373

103 189

100

76

597

418

510

327

166

122

A     Agriculture, forestry and fishing

2 468

1 942

56

46

2 402

1 891

4

3

6

2

-

-

-

-

B     Mining and quarrying

338

277

15

14

321

261

-

-

-

-

2

2

-

 

C     Manufacturing

15 061

12 229

518

443

14 453

11 727

3

1

13

5

69

49

5

4

 D    Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

299

261

7

6

290

254

1

-

-

-

1

1

-

-

E     Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

729

602

14

11

708

587

-

-

-

-

7

4

-

-

F     Construction

18 258

14 626

171

130

17 781

14 290

12

10

131

91

162

104

1

1

G     Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motorvehicles and motorcycles

45 275

32 700

233

173

44 874

32 428

17

10

28

12

119

75

4

2

H     Transportation and storage

4 834

3 748

76

66

4 728

3 660

-

-

9

7

20

14

1

1

I       Accommodation and food  service activities

8 000

6 036

160

150

7 824

5 879

-

-

6

2

8

4

2

1

J      Information and communication

5 144

4 301

60

49

5 054

4 230

4

4

7

6

18

11

1

1

K     Financial and insurance activities

1 107

879

123

111

945

731

1

1

1

1

2

-

35

35

L      Real estate activities

6 115

5 170

25

23

6 064

5 125

9

8

8

7

7

5

2

2

M     Professional, scientific and technical  activities

16 419

14 200

132

118

15 807

13 746

29

19

372

270

79

47

-

-

N     Administrative and support  service  activities

4 931

4 013

22

17

4 868

3 958

18

18

11

11

12

9

-

-

O     Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

20

18

2

2

12

10

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

6

P     Education

714

605

3

3

709

600

-

-

1

1

1

1

-

-

Q     Human health and social work activities

349

318

1

1

348

317

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

R     Arts, entertainment and recreation

1 211

946

17

11

1 193

934

1

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

S     Other service activities

3 118

2 642

9

7

2 992

2 561

1

1

4

3

3

1

109

69

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 both registered and active companies. Joint stock companies followed, with the share of 1.3% of both registered and 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 31 DECEMBER 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

56 869

36,0

53 855

2 663

351

 

 

 

 

 

 

A     Agriculture, forestry and fishing

5

60,0

5

-

-

B     Mining and quarrying

-

-

-

-

-

C     Manufacturing

55

7,3

6

-

49

 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

59

1,7

1

-

58

G     Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motorvehicles and motorcycles

207

88,4

190

-

17

H     Transportation and storage

41

80,5

35

-

6

I       Accommodation and food  service activities

58

86,2

54

-

4

J      Information and communication

67

35,8

52

-

15

K     Financial and insurance activities

182

98,9

182

-

-

L      Real estate activities

-

-

-

-

-

M     Professional, scientific and technical  activities

169

73,4

137

-

32

N     Administrative and support  service  activities

7

71,4

5

-

2

O     Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

3 138

38,3

472

2 663

3

P     Education

2 458

91,9

2 316

-

142

Q     Human health and social work activities

3 292

57,2

3 271

-

21

R     Arts, entertainment and recreation

16 037

30,2

16 037

-

-

S     Other service activities

31 031

31,2

31 031

-

-

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

-

54

-

-

 

 

 

The structure of registered non-profit legal entities by legal forms shows that associations, institutions, co-operations, funds, etc. had the share of 94.7%, state government bodies and bodies of local and regional self-government units had the share of 4.7% and the remaining 0.6% were not harmonised entities.

 

Considering their activity, there were 36.0% active ones. Their structure by activities shows that they were entities belonging to four activity sections: Other service activities, with as much as 54.6% registered, and out of them only 31.2% active entities, Public administration and defence; compulsory social security, with 5.5% registered, and out of them 38.3% active entities, Human health and social work activities, with the similar share of registered and active entities, and Education, with only 4.3% of registered, but with the largest share of active entities (91.9%).

 

 

7.     STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, BY COUNTIES, SITUATION AS ON 31 DECEMBER 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

269 856

134 390

105 513

78 597

5 898

56 869

96 776

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Zagreb

16 525

7 826

6 362

5 694

531

3 005

6 339

County of Krapina-Zagorje

4 833

1 892

1 547

1 362

137

1 579

2 831

County of Sisak-Moslavina

6 629

1 960

1 612

2 088

232

2 581

2 525

County of Karlovac

5 624

2 337

1 937

1 386

125

1 901

2 456

County of Varaždin

7 655

3 696

2 991

1 775

109

2 184

3 195

County of Koprivnica-Križevci

4 659

1 971

1 453

1 256

271

1 432

1 638

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

5 166

2 305

1 661

1 124

157

1 737

1 762

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

22 704

12 495

9 686

6 003

381

4 206

10 107

County of Lika-Senj

2 164

831

654

439

47

894

1 128

County of Virovitica-Podravina

2 940

1 125

883

589

102

1 226

1 250

County of Požega-Slavonia

2 837

862

692

922

75

1 053

1 234

County of Slavonski Brod-Posavina

5 610

2 281

1 661

1 542

104

1 787

2 914

County of Zadar

8 416

3 851

3 128

2 628

249

1 937

5 044

County of Osijek-Baranja

10 250

5 355

4 122

736

174

4 159

4 705

County of Šibenik-Knin

6 103

2 631

2 075

1 971

158

1 501

2 622

County of Vukovar-Sirmium

4 769

2 143

1 559

432

130

2 194

2 982

County of Split-Dalmatia

32 931

15 092

11 823

12 580

370

5 259

11 715

County of Istria

20 783

12 170

9 804

5 477

255

3 136

8 282

County of Dubrovnik-Neretva

6 820

4 031

3 431

657

116

2 132

3 632

County of Meðimurje

5 913

3 014

2 517

1 553

278

1 346

1 731

City of Zagreb

86 525

46 522

35 915

28 383

1 897

11 620

18 684

 

 

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 11.2% of legal entities and 12.1% of 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 11.2% 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.

VII. – IX.

X. – XII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating

3 783

3 499

2 997

3 240

2 977

2 859

2 594

3 165

Trade companies

2 935

2 637

2 333

2 379

2 028

2 011

1 741

2 007

Other

848

862

664

861

949

848

853

1 158

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deleting

850

281

649

646

2 679

398

310

2 315

Enterprises

35

6

106

10

53

6

4

16

Trade companies

794

158

503

425

2 562

293

87

1 749

Other

21

117

40

211

64

99

219

550

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harmonising according to Company Law

397

162

366

303

1 579

387

98

744

 

 

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     80.65% 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 0.99%, and

-    other entities, such as associations, societies and foundations, which are registered in the Register according to specific laws, with a share of 18.37%.

 

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 December 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