Abstract
is article explores the disposition of the new Croatian Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities (hereinafter “the Constitutional Law” or “the Law”)1 adopted on December . e legislation previously governing the protection of minority rights was politically an extremely controversial and much-discussed law, and was amended and suspended quite a number of times in its existence of just over ten years. e adoption of the Constitutional Law was one of Croatia’s international obligations upon entry into the Council of Europe (CoE),2 as well as an imperative for implementation of the European Union Association and Stabilization Agreement.3 Even at the Law’s drafting phase, the European Commission for Democracy through Law (hereinafter “the Venice Commission”) concluded that it constituted “an important step forward in the protection of national minorities in Croatia. It provides a comprehensive and coherent framework for further legislative and regulatory action in the field of minorities’ protection”.4 e Law was drafted on the blueprint of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), and therefore applies the most generally accepted standards in minority protection.
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