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Article 7 The Parties shall ensure respect of the right of every person belonging to a national minority to freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association, freedom of expression, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
From the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior: By the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia (Article 14) all citizens of Croatia have rights and freedoms, regardless of their race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, education, social status or other properties, while members of all nations and minorities (Article 15) shall be guaranteed freedom to express their nationals freedom to use their language and script, as well as cultural autonomy. By the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia (Articled 42) all citizens are guaranteed the right to peaceful assembly and public protest aimed at protection of their interests or promotion of their social, economic, political, national, cultural, and other convictions and objectives. Note: Freedom of association is granted with reference to the Article 8.
From the Constitution of the Republi co fCroatia Article 14 "Citizens of the Repulic of Croatia shall enjoy all rights and feeedoms, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, education, social status or other properties.
Article 15 "Members of all nations and minorities shall have equal rights in the Republic of Croatia. Members of all nations and minorities shall be guaranteed freedom to express their nationality, freedom to use their language and script, and national autonomy." Article 42 "All citizens shall be guaranteed the right to peaceful assembly and public protest." Act on Public Assembly Article 2 "Public assembly of citizens in the sense of this Act are considered to be gatherings both in and out of doors organised for the purpose of entertainment, cultural, religious, humanitarian, social, sport and other activities of citizens, as well as protests, demonstrations, and processions, in order to publicly express opinions and achieve their political intention." Article 4 "Organisers shall require a permit to hold a peaceful assembly. The permit for the paragraph 1 of this Article shall be required from the police department in charge of the territory of intended assembly (hereinafter: authority in charge). Should the assembly take place outside the territory of authority in charge from the paragraph 2 herewith, relevant permit shall be required from the police station on the territory of the intended assembly. The police station shall immediately forward the relevant requirement to the authority in charge. The police department may entrust affairs under its jurisdiction to the police station on the territory of the assembly. Public assembly permit comprises the following data: the organiser's name and family name, birth date and address, or name and headquarters of the organiser; purpose, place, date and time of the public assembly, contingent security measures provided at the place of assembly, number of security providers and their personal data, as well as the name and family name, birth date and address of the assembly leader. When a public protest is held on public traffic routes, the organiser will attach to the permit requirement an approval required by regulations of safety of road traffic.
From the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior.
Citizens shall enjoy the right of peaceful assembly and public protest and an organiser of the public assembly shall be obliged to accordingly notify only the police department in charge.
From the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior: The public protest records for the past few years show that in majority of cases they were organised to fulfil cultural, entertaining, religious, sport, social and political interest of citizens, in 1997 and in the frames of their task to support and maintain the public order and safety, the police recorded 5238 (3505 the year before) public gatherings, 2137 (2390) of which were sport activities, 2603(157) political, 348 (504) culture and entertainment related, 41(58) religious, and l09(196)other purpose assemblies. Out of this number only 12 (31 the year before) or 0.23% of the announced public assemblies were banned: four of them were sport events, four political, three cultural and entertainment, and one from the category of other-purpose assemblies. The reasons of the ban included: failure on the part of the organiser to provide the security or institute security measures, and announcement of two public assemblies at the same place and time. Besides, 24 public protests were broken off on the requirement of organisers themselves (18 in the previous year). The Ministry of the Interior has no data on the participation of national minority members in announced public assemblies, since by the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia all citizens have equal right to assemble peacefully. Therefore, this information is not required for obtaining a permit to hold a peaceful assembly. Instead, organiser's title and headquarters, purpose of assembly, its place, and security measures to prevent any public order and peace disruption, are in the focus.
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