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    EU and Ministry of Interior

    One of the priorities of the Republic of Croatia is its accession and membership in the European Union. For this reason, in 2004, within the Ministry of the Interior, a new organizational unit was founded, the Department for the European Integration and Peace Missions, which is managed by the Head of the Department. Concerning the exceptional significance of this Department, an assistant minister was appointed as the head of it and he also carries out the function of the intermediary coordinator for the Department, the position held by Mr Filip Dragović.

    The Department deals with the following areas:

    European Integrations

    The Department for the European Integration and Peace Missions puts forward the proposals for the measures related to the approximation of the EU standards concerning the affairs of the Ministry of the Interior. It also cooperates, on behalf of the Ministry, with the EU institutions, the national coordinator for the approximation to the EU as well as with all Ministry’s organizational units and all the government administration authorities whose activities are related to the association of the Republic of Croatia with the European Union.

    The Department develops the documents needed for the harmonization of Croatian regulations with the EU regulations. Together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integrations, it coordinates the implementation of the CARDS projects, sets out proposals and tunes up the development of the aid projects from the PHARE and other preaccession funds and provides for the expert and other kinds of support to the MoI organizational dealing with the implementation of these projects. The implementation of the projects funded through the preacession EU funds is being carried out by the Central Unit that coordinates all the MoI project activities  funded by the CARDS and PHARE programs.

    You will find the overview of the MoI List of Projects, the status of the projects and the areas of aid, on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration website.

    Together with all other organizational units, the Department conducts analysis of the possible needs of the MoI (drafting of the regulations proposals, training programs, investments into infrastructure, equipment and other) and, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, it sets out the project proposals to the EU authorities, to the EU Member States and to other countries and international organizations.

    Peace missions

    The Department for the European Integration and Peace Missions coordinates all the international activities of the MoI and carries out the selection, trainings and the coordination of secondment of police officers to the peace missions and to the tasks abroad. It provides for the logistic support to the police officers in peace missions and abroad and follows up and analyses their reports and supervises their work.

    Peace missions in which Croatian police officers take part

    Peace mission within the NATO

    Since 6 January 2005, the Croatian Ministry of the Interior takes part, with two of its police officers, in the NATO / ISAF Peace Mission in Afghanistan within the German PRT, and in August 2005, it seconded the third one. The MoI police officers in  Afghanistan are in the capacity of police advisors for the establishment of the police service infrastructure.

    Peace missions within the UN


    UNMIT - East Timor
     
    From January through July 2005, the police officer Damir Hrlić was in the peacekeeping mission in East Timor, in the capacity of the State Border Protection Team leader. Upon his return, the police officer Robert Križanić was sent there. Afterward the mandate of the mission has changed, which is now executive. In November 2006, the police officer Vinko Lukšić was sent to the mission. He performs tasks regarding criminal police, more precisely homicide and sex offenses.
    Further enlargement of the mission has been planned for the early 2007, when the police officer Dalibor Bogić will be sent to the mission, to be followed by three more police officers.

    UNFICYP - Cyprus
     
    The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia has participated in the mission since April 2005, when two police officers were sent to Cyprus. They are Mladen Vrtarić, who performed tasks of the liaison officer in the mission headquarters and Nenad Tuškanac, who headed one of the three sectors for the demarcation line between the Greek and the Turkish parts of Cyprus.
    The latter returned to Croatia in April 2006, and was substituted by Gordan Vojta, who was the commander of the UN Athienou police station. He is currently Sector IV deputy commander.
    The contingent of the Croatian police on Cyprus currently consist of three officers, since in November 2006 Vedran Žgela was sent for a one-year term as the substitute for Mladen Vrtarić, whereas in January 2007 at the UN's request to enlarge the Croatian contingent Goran Jurić, head of the Illegal Migration Department in the Primorsko-goranska County Police Administration, was sent for a one-year term.

    UNMIK – Kosovo

    Since May 2005, the Republic of Croatia Ministry of the Interior takes part in the Mission at Kosovo with two police officers, Davor Javorski, in the capacity of the neighbouring countries liaison officer and Kornelija Jakupec, the coordinator for the issues of child abuse.

    For their exemplary and professional work in the Missions at Cipar, Kosovo and East Timor, the MoI police officers were conferred decoration for their becoming work and contribution to the UN peace missions.

    International engagements

    Since June 2005, three MoI police instructors have been seconded to the International Police Training Centre in Jordan (JIPTC). The JIPTC has been continuously asking for more Croatian police instructors.