The real estate registration system in Croatia consists of two registers: the cadastre (in which real estate is registered according to technical data), and the land registry (where these data are supplemented by information on real estate rights). These two registers are united in a single database, the Common Information System of Land Registry and Cadastre (“ZIS”), available online at the domain https://oss.uredjenazemlja.hr/. The service is available in Croatian and English.
The ZIS web application enables a One-Stop-Shop (OSS) which consolidates data entry, initial data filling, data maintenance, data access and land administration data printouts. The application has two components:
- OSS public – available to all users (non-registered) allowing searching and viewing basic cadastral analog and graphic data,
- OSS private – available only to registered users, allowing viewing data, submitting applications for issuing public documents, and receiving official documents online.
Since February 2023, all submissions for entry in the land registry have to be submitted electronically by ZIS, via a notary public or an attorney-at-law who creates the document representing the legal basis for the entry. Furthermore, ZIS enables citizens obtaining certain public documents (such as land registry excerpts, a certificate of house number, or a list of all real estate owned by that citizen) directly from ZIS. In order to do so, citizens have to log-in to the system by using their electronic personal identifier (for example their e-ID or m-banking certificate), but making an account is not needed. On the other hand, citizens may still request insight into certain data from cadastre and land registry personally at the counter of the competent court.
Searching the data on ZIS may be performed by zooming in on the map of Croatia, available immediately upon opening the application. It may also be done by writing the query in the searchbox, whereby the system automatically suggests all entries containing the query. The recognized queries include the names or numbers of land registry plots, cadastral municipalities and plots, addresses, streets, towns and cities, land registry court departments, cadastral offices, etc. Certain limitations may apply in certain cases (primarily where the competent land registry is not fully digitalized), whereby it may be necessary to enter more information into the search boy (e.g. not just the land plot number, but also the competent land registry court, the name of the main land registry book and the number of the sub-unit).