Organization for Youth Education & Development (OYED)
Laws Concerning Youth in Croatia
Laws Concerning Youth in Croatia
Europe’s youth unemployment crisis dramatically hit Croatia, who is now experiencing a dramatic increase in youth unemployment. The unemployment rate sore from 25.1 per cent in 2009 to 49.2 per cent today, according to Eurostat, the statistical Office of the European Union. Among those aged 15 to 24, Croatia has the EU’s third-highest unemployment rate behind Greece and Spain.
To address the growing numbers of unemployed young people across the continent, the European Commission has established the Youth Guarantee programme but young Croatians are skeptical of the new EU program to improve the country’s labour market. Some say the funds that came with it were just a ‘performance’ to make belief that Brussels was fighting unemployment.
Croatia, which became a EU member state in July 2013, has committed itself to the Youth Guarantee programme. In January 2014, in fact, the Croatian government received more than 128m euros of EU funds to start building a support system that would include the creation of more opportunities for vocational education, setting up a self-employment scheme, and co-ordinating apprenticeships in the public and private sectors.
Measures taken before the EU's Youth Guarantee initiative indicate that the Croatian government is well aware of the urgency of the situation. In 2009, it began implementing a scheme in which the state would sponsor youth working in certain public-sector positions.
2013- 2014
- Youth Guarantee Program (EU)
The idea behind this new initiative is for each country to implement a comprehensive scheme, involving government authorities, academic institutions and other stakeholders, which would ensure youths receive job offers - or offers of apprenticeships or vocational education - within four months of registering as unemployed.
2012
- Employment Promotion Act
The government adopted the Employment Promotion Act, which expanded the subsidies to occupations in the private sector.
2009 - 2013
- The Youth Program (new National Youth Program- Nacionalni Program za mlade od 2009. Do 2013.godine)
Is an update of the original with measures and activities specifically for 2009-2013. It focuses on many of the same areas: Education, Social policy, Health, and Participation.
2003
- National Youth Action Program (Nacionalni Program Djelovanja za Mlade)
Aims to create the conditions for the improved development and well being of youth. Its strategic goals include:
- improving legislation on youth;
- defining and providing clarity on public bodies on their obligations in relation to youth;
- including as many young people as possible in the decision making;
- creating conditions that reduce emigration and promote a return to Croatia.
1991
- National Report Croatia: Children’s rights policy
The Republic of Croatia, as a legal successor of the former SFRY, incorporated theConvention on the Rights of the Child in its legal system by notification of succession.
The Convention entered into force in respect of Croatia on 8 October 1991. Under Article 140 ofthe Croatian Constitution, it is part of the domestic legal order of the Republic of Croatia and has a legal force superior to that law.
In order to ensure a greater efficiency in taking joint actions by state bodies and institutions, the Government of the Republic of Croatia established a national co-ordinating body (Council for Children). The Council for Children is entrusted with the promotion of children's rights, but not with the drafting of reports about the application of the Convention.
The basic task of the Council is to ensure permanent monitoring of the implementation of the National Programme of Action for Children in the Republic of Croatia.
