Croatia – 2018 update - Bioenergy policies and status of implementation - Country Reports

Edited by: Luc Pelkmans, Technical Coordinator IEA Bioenergy Contributors: Branko Vuk, Branka Jelavić, Biljana Kulišić NATIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK IN CROATIA Croatia`s target to increase the share of renewable energy to 20% in the annual gross energy consumption of the country by 2020 is defined in the National Energy Strategy 2009 – 2020 and implemented according to the National Renewable Energy Ac. [...] However, the Energy Strategy adopted in 2009 obliges the Croatian State to encourage the future use of RES and to achieve a higher percentage of primary use of RES in the heating sector (Cooling is not mentioned.) Indirectly, RES heating and cooling is promoted through various energy efficiency programmes (Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund, HBOR, commercial banks…) where a buildi. [...] The last Energy Action Plan was adopted in the year 2010 and sets the goal of a biofuel market share of 10% in the transport sector by 2020. [...] These objectives are obliging the actors on the market to follow the goals set in the action plans and to prepare their own plans and programmes of placing biofuels on the market (Art. [...] The amount of the subsidy is set by the Government annually for the upcoming year by the end of November in the Subsidy Decision (Art.