Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (Croatia) explained

Agency Name:	Ministry of Economy
Nativename:	Ministarstvo gospodarstva
Headquarters:	Ulica Grada Vukovara 78, Zagreb, Croatia
Employees:	362 (2015)^[1]
Budget:	HRK 1.567 billion (2015)^[2]
Jurisdiction:	Government of Croatia
Minister1 Name:	Ante Šušnjar

The ministry of Economy of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo gospodarstva i održivog razvoja) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of the development of the economy, and conducting administrative and other tasks related to:

industry, except food and tobacco industry, shipbuilding, energy, mining, trade, cooperatives, other than agricultural, small and medium businesses, trade, trade policy, and policy to protect domestic production; economic cooperation with foreign countries,
involvement in European economic integration, the harmonization of activities in conjunction with the Croatian membership in the World Trade Organization and participation in multilateral trade negotiations in the framework of this organization,
promotion of exports and foreign investment, the establishment and operation of free zones, systematic stimulation of entrepreneurship, state of market, supplies and prices, consumer protection, strategic stockpiles, the privatization of shares and stakes in the state owned companies, restructuring and rehabilitation of legal entities,
safety at work.

List of ministers

Minister	Party	Term start	Term end	width=70	Days in office
Ivan Čermak		HDZ	align=right	20 May 1993	align=right	12 October 1993	align=right
Nadan Vidošević		HDZ	align=right	12 October 1993	align=right	18 September 1995	align=right
Zlatko Mateša		HDZ	align=right	18 September 1995	align=right	7 November 1995	align=right
Davor Štern		HDZ	align=right	7 November 1995	align=right	14 April 1997	align=right
Nenad Porges		HDZ	align=right	14 April 1997	align=right	27 January 2000	align=right
Goranko Fižulić		HSLS	align=right	27 January 2000	align=right	21 March 2002	align=right
Hrvoje Vojković		HSLS	align=right	21 March 2002	align=right	30 July 2002	align=right
Ljubo Jurčić		Ind.	align=right	30 July 2002	align=right	23 December 2003	align=right
Branko Vukelić		HDZ	align=right	23 December 2003	align=right	12 January 2008	align=right
Damir Polančec		HDZ	align=right	12 January 2008	align=right	30 October 2009	align=right
Đuro Popijač		HDZ	align=right	19 November 2009	align=right	23 December 2011	align=right
Radimir Čačić		HNS-LD	align=right	23 December 2011	align=right	14 November 2012	align=right
Tamara Obradović-Mazal (acting)		Ind.	align=right	14 November 2012	align=right	16 November 2012	align=right
Ivan Vrdoljak		HNS-LD	align=right	16 November 2012	align=right	22 January 2016	align=right
Tomislav Panenić		Most	align=right	22 January 2016	align=right	19 October 2016	align=right
Martina Dalić		HDZ	align=right	19 October 2016	align=right	14 May 2018	align=right
Darko Horvat		HDZ	align=right	25 May 2018	align=right	23 July 2020	align=right
Tomislav Ćorić		HDZ	align=right	23 July 2020	align=right	29 April 2022	align=right
Davor Filipović		HDZ	align=right	29 April 2022	align=right	Incumbent	align=right

Ministers of Crafts, Small and Mid-sized Entrepreneurship (2000–2003)

Minister	Party	Term start	Term end	width=70	Days in office
Željko Pecek		HSS	align=right	27 January 2000	align=right	23 December 2003	align=right

Ministers of Entrepreneurship and Crafts (2011–2016)

See main article: Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts (Croatia).

Minister	Party	Term start	Term end	width=70	Days in office
Gordan Maras		SDP	align=right	23 December 2011	align=right	22 January 2016	align=right
Darko Horvat		HDZ	align=right	22 January 2016	align=right	19 October 2016	align=right

Origins

The Ministry of Economy was not included as such in the first four Croatian Governments. The Cabinet of Stjepan Mesić and the Cabinet of Josip Manolić included the minister for social planning (Croatian: društveno planiranje; post held by Stjepan Zdunić) and the minister of energy and industry (Croatian: energetika i industrija; Božo Udovičić). In the Cabinet of Franjo Gregurić, the former minister became the minister of economic development (Croatian: gospodarski razvitak), and there was also a minister of trade (Croatian: trgovina; Petar Kriste, Branko Mikša). The Cabinet of Hrvoje Šarinić in turn included the minister of industry, shipbuilding and energy (Croatian: industrija, brodogradnja i energetika; Franjo Kajfež) and the minister of tourism and trade (Croatian: turizam i trgovina; Branko Mikša).

In the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša, the prime minister also talked of renaming the ministry of economy back into the ministry of industry and energy.^[3] In the Cabinet of Andrej Plenković in October 2016 the Ministry of Economy was merged with the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts into the Ministry of Economy, Small and Medium Entrepreneurship and Crafts.

Notes and References

Blažević, Robert (2015): Upravna znanost, p. 284.
"...(on day 19. February 2015)."
Web site: Naslovna.
News: Žic-Fuchs ministrica znanosti, Đurkić ministar poljoprivrede . 23 February 1999 . . Croatian . Također, razmišlja se i o tome da sadašnje Ministarstvo gospodarstva preraste u Ministarstvo industrije, energetike, a možda i turizma. . 17 December 2010 . dead . https://archive.today/20010517201256/http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/1999/02/23/nunu.htm . 17 May 2001 .