THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROCEDURES FOR THE AWARD OF CONCESSIONS FOR MARINAS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA – DE LEGE LATA ET DE LEGE FERENDA

This article analyses the award of concessions procedure for marinas in the Republic of Croatia, de lege lata (the current law) and de lege ferenda (the law that is to be proposed) and gives measures for improving the valorisation of the maritime domain. Croatia is one of the most desirable nautical destinations in the world due to its natural resources (climate conditions, beautiful landscape, 6278 km of coastline with 1185 islands, rocks and reefs), good infrastructure, quantity and locations of the nautical tourism ports and personal safety. Croatia’s tourism development strategy to 2020 identifies nautical tourism as one of the main strategic target. For this reason, it’s important to efficiently manage the natural resources including the maritime domain as one of the most important Croatian strategic resources. Maritime concessions serve as a vehicle of economic development and allow supervision over the use of the maritime domain in order to protect it. The award of concessions for marinas is regulated by legal acts which will be analysed in this article