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Areas of Special State Concern (Croatia)
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'''Areas of Special State Concern''' or '''ASSC'''<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"> Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> in [[Croatia]] are areas of relative underdevelopment compared to the rest of the country in which [[Croatian Government]] implement certain policies aimed at achieving balanced [[regional development]]. In addition to challenges faced by many other non-urban communities in Croatia ASSC areas face specific challenges which are result of the 1991-1995 [[Croatian War of Independence]] and include return and reintegration of [[war refugees]], lack of entrepreneurial capacity and support for [[business]], destroyed or inadequate [[infrastructure]], land under [[land-mines]] and insufficient [[social integration|social reintegration]].<ref name="COMPETITIVENESS-OPERATIONAL-PROGRAMME"> Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Legal foundation for the government's activities is the '''Act on Areas of Special State Concern''' which belong to the group of the four so-called regional acts though they are mostly implemented at the local and municipal level.<ref name="COMPETITIVENESS-OPERATIONAL-PROGRAMME"/> The Act was [[Coming into force|enacted]] in 1996 which brought flexibility with municipalities and settlements entering or leaving the ASSC depending on their indicators.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> In 2002 the Act has passed through the major amendment divided the ASSC into three major categories.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/>
The '''Firs Category''' is covering settlements directly on the sate border which were [[Republic of Serbian Krajina|under the rebel control during the war]] and whose seat is less than 15 km away from the border and have less than 5,000 inhabitants according to the 1991 census as well as the entire area of the former self-proclaimed [[Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995–98)|Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia]].<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> The '''Second Category''' covers all the other regions which were under the rebel control but are not in the first category.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> The '''Third Category''' includes areas which are lagging behind the rest of the country in its development.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> Particular financial contribution to the Government activities in the ASSC areas is provided by the Regional Development Fund established in 2001.<ref name="COMPETITIVENESS-OPERATIONAL-PROGRAMME"/>
The Act's general provisions determine than only up to 15% of the total population of Croatia may live in the ares which are determined as the ASSC.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> 170 units of local government in Croatia or some of their settlements are part of the ASSC and in 2001 679,657 inhabitants lived on their territory (15,3% of the total population), with 217,876 in the First, 264,031 in the Second and 197,750 in the Third Category.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/>
== References ==
[[Category:1996 in Croatia]]
[[Category:Subdivisions of Croatia]]
[[Category:Local government in Croatia]]
The '''Firs Category''' is covering settlements directly on the sate border which were [[Republic of Serbian Krajina|under the rebel control during the war]] and whose seat is less than 15 km away from the border and have less than 5,000 inhabitants according to the 1991 census as well as the entire area of the former self-proclaimed [[Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995–98)|Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia]].<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> The '''Second Category''' covers all the other regions which were under the rebel control but are not in the first category.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> The '''Third Category''' includes areas which are lagging behind the rest of the country in its development.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> Particular financial contribution to the Government activities in the ASSC areas is provided by the Regional Development Fund established in 2001.<ref name="COMPETITIVENESS-OPERATIONAL-PROGRAMME"/>
The Act's general provisions determine than only up to 15% of the total population of Croatia may live in the ares which are determined as the ASSC.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/> 170 units of local government in Croatia or some of their settlements are part of the ASSC and in 2001 679,657 inhabitants lived on their territory (15,3% of the total population), with 217,876 in the First, 264,031 in the Second and 197,750 in the Third Category.<ref name="ASSC-Hrčak-Lovrinčević"/>
== References ==
[[Category:1996 in Croatia]]
[[Category:Subdivisions of Croatia]]
[[Category:Local government in Croatia]]
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