The foreign producer must team up with a local Croatian co-producer or production service provider. The Croatian partner provides the full range of production services, including locations scouting, scheduling, budgeting, casting, crewing and takes full responsibility for all production services carried out in the country throughout the life-span of the production.
The Croatian entity applies to the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) for a provisional certificate before the start of production, and for a final certificate upon completion of the production in Croatia, and is responsible for compliance with prescribed formal requirements.
A hardcopy of the Application, comprising of the completed Application Form, Qualification Test and complete documentation (see: Application Forms/Supporting Documents) must be sent to the HAVC no later than 30 days prior to the start of production in Croatia.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Application and all its pertaining documents must be submitted in Croatian.