I N F O R M A T I O N
ABOUT RECIPROCITY ( MUTUALITY )
CROATIAN REPUBLIC – OTHER COUNTRIES

Country	Base for establishing reciprocity	Reciprocity (mutuality)
Argentina	Argentine Foreign Office Note No. 17143 from 7.10.2003.	mutuality exists
Australia	Australian Foreign Office Note No. NSB 039/03 from 24.09.2003 - Foreign Acquisition and Takeovers Act, 1975	Mutuality exists within condition of constant residence in Croatian Republic. If it is about an invesment , then a special approval about a foreign investment is needed.
Austria	Austrian Federal Ministry Note No. GZ.BMa-0.08/0018e-IV3/2004, from March 11, 2005	depends on the region
Counties:
Wienna	Wiennese Law about Foreign Aquisition (Regional Official Newspaper No. 11/1998.)	Conditions: - economic interest (performing economic activity) or - sociological interest (temporary residence of the obtainer, a real estate must have a purpose to satisfy personal residental needs
Voralberg	Property Transaction Law (Regional Official Newspaper No. 29/2000)	condition: constant residence
Tyrol	Property Transaction Law (Regional Official Newspaper No. 61/1996)	conditions: - constant residence approved and - in the case of obtaining building plot there must be economic, sociological or cultural interest for the region
Štyria	Property Transaction Law (Regional Official Newspapers No. 135/1993)	conditions: - constant residence approved or earlier residence for at least 5 years or - cultural, sociological or economic interest
Salzburg	Property Transaction Law (Regional Official Newspapers No. 9/2002)	conditions: - temporary residence approved for the purpose of performing activity or retirement - a real estate must have a purpose of performing econimic activity - obtaining musn´t be contrary to the interests of the region
Upper Austria	Property Transaction Law (Regional Official Newspapers No. 88/1994)	conditions: - national, cultural or sociological interests mustn´t be endangered, and they are so if the obtainer has a residental prohibition in Austria or Croatia or if he/she was sentenced for the criminal offence
Lower Austria	Property Transaction Law (Regional Official Newspaper No. 6800-3)	conditions : - economi, social or cultural interes, or 10 year of residence in RA (or CR)
Carinthia	Property Transaction Law from 2002, K-GVG, LGB1.9/2004	conditions : - obtaining properties must have a purpose of providing accomodation or establishing permanent residence - when obtaining properties for leisure at least 5 year residence is needed - a property must have performing activities as a purpose
Burgenland	Property Transaction Law from 1995. (Regional Officonal Newspaper No. 42/1996)	Conditions : - 10 year residence or economic interest (regional investing) or social interest (if he/she is Austrian by birth, or if he/she is Croatian by birth and wants to return home) or cultural interest (cultural or scientific contribution)
Belgium	Code civil	mutuality exists
Sultanatei Brunei		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s response)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation)	Property-rights Law	mutuality for physical persons exists within the condition that they have a permanent residence in Croatia, or if they perform an allowed activity - for legal persons within the condition that they perform activities in Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Entity Serbian Republic)	Serbian Ministry of Justice Official Notice from December 12, 2003. - Basic Ownership Relations Law	mutuality doesn´t exist
Bulgaria		updating needed
Cyprus		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s response)
Montenegro		defining needed (a new state)
Čzech Republic	Currency Law No. 219/1995	mutuality doesn´t exist
Čhile	Civil Code	mutuality exists (it is limited to the real estates which are considered a common good and which are in the state property)
Denmark	Property-rights Aquisition Law No. 566/1986	conditions: - permanent residence approved
Dominica		defining needed
Estonia	Restrictions on Acquisition of Immovables Acr	mutuality exists
Philippines		Defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s explanation )
Finland	- Finnish Foreign Office Note No. HEL0212-170 since September 2003 - Act on the surveillance of non-residents and foreign entities acquisitions of real property in Finland (1293/1999)	mutuality exists
France	- Croatian Ambassadorial Notice from September 26, 2003 - Property Law	mutuality exists
Hellen Republic	- Hellenic Foreign Office Note No.F.890/4/AS 3295 from May 13, 2004 - The Law No.1892/191	Mutuality exists except in the border counties (Florin, Thesprotia, Kastoria, Xanti, Rodopi, Evrou, island Samos, island Hios, island Lezbos, island Santorini, Dodekanus – twelve islans – Rodos, Kos, Kastelorizo, Kalimnos, Halki, Simi, Tilos, Patrnos, districts: Pogonia and Konjitsas in the county Loannina, Districts: Almopias and Edessas in the county Pella, district Sindiki in the county Serres, district Nevrokopa in the county Drama.
Republic India	Croatian Ambassadorial Notice from May 14, 2000	mutuality doesn´t exist
Indonezia		Defining on progress (waiting for the authorority´explanation)
Ireland	- Irish Foreign Office Note No. From June 6, 2003 - Land-ownership Law from 1965	mutuality exists
Island	Island Ambassadorial Note No. KAUO4080015/21.D.001 from November 5, 2004	condition: permanent residence
Israel		defining in profress (waiting for the authority´s explanation)
Japan	Japan Foreign Office Note No. : 1095/EUE from May 30, 2001	mutuality exists
Republic of South Africa	Aliens Controj Acr. from 1991	condition: permanent residence
Canada	Croatian Ambassadorial Notice in Otawa from June 23, 2004	depends on the province - recioprocity exists for Ontario and British Columbia
Kazakhstan		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s explanation)
Kongo		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s explanation)
Luxembourg	Croatian Ambassadorial Notice in Bruxelless since August 2000	mutuality exists
Republic Latvia		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s explanation)
Republika Lithuania	Note No. 5-232/2006 Lithuanian Foreign Secretary	mutuality exists
Hungary	Hunharian Government Decree No. 7/1996 (18.I.) and No. 146/2004. (V.1.)	mutuality exists
Republic Macedonia	Macedonian Ministry of Justice Notice from June 7, 2006	mutuality doesn´t exist
Malaysia	Croatian Ambassadorial Notice Kuala Lumpuru from September 15, 2003	A real estate value must be less than 55000 USD. - a legal person must gain real estates for business purpose, which means that a real estate must be used for economic purpose
Republic Malta		isn´t defined (there weren´t any demands)
Holland	- Dutch Ambassadorial Note No. 311/95 from June 6, 1995 Civil Right Law Dutch Foreign Secretary Note No. 542/01 from December 6, 2001	mutuality exists
Norway	Royal Foreign Office – Notice from June 12, 2003	-          mutuality exists if the local government isn´t against aquisition and if the area of a real estate isn´t bigger than 2000 m2 -          mutuality exists if the legal business is made between spouses and relatives
New Zealand	Oversea Law Investments	mutuality exists if the higher real esate value isn´t acquired (more than 10 million of New Zealand dollars or a plot bigger than 5 hectares) (if that kind of real estates is acquired, then the acquisition is possible within legal conditions)
Germany	German Foreign Office Note No. 507-520.35 HRV from September 1, 2003 Civil Code	mutuality exists
Republic Paraguay	Paraguayan Foreign Office Note No. 184/03 from November 7, 2003	mutuality exists
Poland	- Croatian Embassy Notice from October 21, 2003 - Property Acquisition Law - Polish Home-Office Note No. ZK-III-025/96/04 from March 25, 2004	Mutuality exists in the relation of acquiring apartments and suites
Portugal		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s response)
Romania	Law of private property acquisition by foreign citizens, apartheid and foreign legal persons	mutuality doesn´t exist
Russia	Russian Embassy Note No. 153 from August 10, 2005, Foreign Office Note No. 11590/n/3ed from May 16, 2005, Croatian Embassy Notice in Moscow from November 24, 2005 and June 14, 2005	mutuality doesn´t exist
Singapore		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s further explanation)
U S A	Croatian Embassy Notice in Washington from: June 4, 2004; August 4, 2003 Judicial Department of Iowa since August, 2006	Mutuality exists in relation to: Alabama, Arizona, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Yersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Iowa, and for Oklahoma you need to have a constant residence
Slovakia	- Slovakian Ministry of Finance notice No. MF3748/2004-62 from July 15,2004 - Slovalian Parliament Law No. 2002/1995 Z.z. - Foreign Exchange Law (paragraph19a)	mutuality exists
Slovenia		mutuality exists
Serbia	Note No. 5/13770/4-2003 Basic Property-rights Relation Law	mutuality doesn´t exist
Spain	- Spanish Ministry of Economics Note from October 10, 2003	mutuality exists
Sweden	Swedish Foreign Office Note from February 19, 2003	mutuality exists
Switzerland	Swiss Embassy No. 34/2001 from February 20, 2001, and Note No. 91/2001 from June 4, 2001 - Lex Friedrich	Mutuality exists within the condition of permanent residence in Croatia for a physical person, and performing economic activity for a legal person (a real estate must serve especially for performing economic activity)
Italia	Croatian Embassy Oral Note in Rome from October 10, 2006	mutuality exists in relation to physical persons
Turkey	Turkish Foreign Office Note No. 2002/KOEH/332447 since September, 2003	- a plot up to 30 hectare can be acquired, within the condition of reciprocity - within the condition of reciprocy a real estate can be also aquired by legal persons, who are registerd as trading companies
Ukraine		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s explanation)
United Kingdom	Law od Property Act 1989	mutuality exists
Venezuela		defining in progress (waiting for the authority´s notice)