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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia (Ustavni Sud Republike Hrvatske)

Croatia [hr]

Matija Miloš, Sara Radman

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 19 January 2025

Subject(s):
Constitutional interpretation — Constitutional design — Judicial review of legislation — Preliminary procedures of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Powers and jurisdiction of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Judicial review

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Croatia’s contemporary constitution was adopted at the eve of the country’s secession from Yugoslavia in 1990 (Yugoslavia, Dissolution of). This is the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia: 22 December 1990 (Croat) that entered into force on the same date. Nonetheless, the Constitutional Court predates the fall of the federation (federalism). As one of the constituent republics of Yugoslavia, Croatia introduced the Court through the constitutional reform of 1963. The innovation was part of a greater effort to strengthen the enforcement of human rights...
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