Measurement of quality assurance and air quality data assurance - Reference Laboratory

First option - FREEDOM TO PROVIDE CROSS-BORDER SERVICES
 
If you are established in EU/EEA country, you have freedom to provide services on temporary and occasional basis, without obligation of establishment in Croatia and without a prior check. The following conditions must be fulfilled, which are the same as for the Freedom to establish option. An online declaration is sent at pisarnica@mzozt.hr, along with a photo or a scan of the following documents (signed, without a stamp):
 
  • proof of registered activity from the register on establishment in EU member state or evidence of the existence of reciprocity for states outside EU
  • list of employees (at least 3) along with evidence of their professional qualifications - electronic employment records or evidence of work experience and diploma
  • description of the employee’s work experience and a list of expert tasks in monitoring pollutant emissions from stationary sources into the air in which the employee participated
  • excerpt from the land registry or lease contract for the work premises with an excerpt from the land registry of the lessor
  • accreditation certificate in line with the Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories, along with a list of reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring for which the permit is being applied
  • evidence of successful participation in inter-laboratory test comparisons of reference laboratories in international inter-laboratory comparison programmes for the reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring for which it has been accredited, for those reference methods for which tests are organised.
 
Second option - FREEDOM TO ESTABLISH
 
If you are established in EU/EEA country, you as a physical or legal person have freedom to provide services on a permanent basis in Croatia, if you register an establishment in Croatia and submit the following documents, i.e. fulfil the following conditions:
 
  • a legal person is registered for performing activities of measurement quality assurance and data quality assurance
  • has at least three employees, at least one of them with a university degree in natural, technical or biotechnical sciences or of such a profession or with a university degree in sanitary engineering, field of biomedicine and health, with at least five years of work experience in air quality monitoring tasks
  • has the required work premises, including a laboratory for performing sample analysis, processing and presentation of measurement results and checking of measuring procedures and data collected through measurement and sampling, apart from those procedures whose very nature requires that they be performed in the open i.e. directly at the point of discharge of the waste gases
  • has been accredited in line with the Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories, for one or more reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring
  • has successfully participated in inter-laboratory test comparisons of reference laboratories in international inter-laboratory comparison programmes for the reference measurement methods prescribed by the Ordinance on air quality monitoring for which it has been accredited and for the reference methods for which the inter-laboratory comparison is organized.
 
Submit a photo or a scan of the following documents (signed, without a stamp) on pisarnica@mzozt.hr:
 
  • proof of registered activity from the register of EU member state, and evidence of the existence of reciprocity for states outside the EU
  • list of employees (at least 3) along with evidence of their professional qualifications - electronic employment records or evidence of work experience and diploma
  • description of the employee’s work experience and a list of expert tasks in monitoring pollutant emissions from stationary sources into the air in which the employee participated
  • excerpt from the land registry or lease contract for the work premises, with an excerpt from the land registry of the lessor
  • accreditation certificate for monitoring pollutant emissions from stationary sources in line with the Harmonized standards for test and calibration laboratories, along with a list of reference measurement methods in accordance with HRN EN 14181 standard for which the permit is being applied.
 
If EU/EEA nationals do not provide the required documents, a competent authority will check their data via the Internal Market Information System (IMI).
 
Fees
 
None
 
e-Service
 
First option: e-Service available for EU/EEA citizens
 
Second option: pisarnica@mzozt.hr (for sending photographed or scanned documents; signed, without a stamp)
 
 
Competent authority and regulations
 
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition
Radnička cesta 80, 10 000 Zagreb
+385 1 3717 111
pisarnica@mzozt.hr
 
Air Protection Act (OG 127/19, 57/22 and 136/24)
Ordinance on air quality monitoring (OG 72/20)
 
Authorisation
 
The decision whereby a permit for activities of monitoring air quality is issued.
 
Deadline: 30 days
 
Legal remedies
 
An appeal may not be lodged against the decision; however, you may submit a complaint within 30 days to the competent administrative court:
   
The legal remedy is an integral part of every decision.
 
05/01/2026
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