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21 Sep 2011

Libya + 1 other
Croatian Humanitarian Assistance to Libya

Report
— Government of Croatia

A shipment of humanitarian aid for the people of Libya sailed out from Rijeka towards Benghazi, organised by the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

The humanitarian aid worth approximately $200.000 includes a donation of medical supplies provided by the Government of the Republic of Croatia, as well as a private donation of medicines. The entire operation was coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia, which provided the funds to cover the related transport expenses.

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07 Sep 2011

Croatia + 1 other
Kick off Conference on the occasion of the commencement of the project of demining the Croatian-Hungarian border held

Report
— Government of Croatia

The realization of the biggest project financed by the European Union funds in the framework of the IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Hungary-Croatia, Demining HU-HR (HUHR/1001/111/0006) started today by the official signing of the European Union Grant Contract for the project of demining the Croatian-Hungarian border entitled «Rehabilitation of land mine contaminated sites in the Drava-Danube area» at the Kick off Conference in Osijek. The Grant Contract was signed by Mr. Simó Balasz, head of the Management Body of the IPA Cross-border Cooperation Programme Hungary-Croatia and Mr.

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15 Jun 2011

Croatia
The Co-operation Agreement Signed in the Premises of ‘‘Croatia without Mines" - Humanitarian Demining Trust Fund

Report
— Government of Croatia

Today, June 15, 2011, there was an official ceremony of signing the Co-operation Agreement held in the premises of the ''Croatia without Mines''- Humanitarian Demining Trust Fund in Zagreb, in Kralj Zvonimir Street. The Agreement was signed for the purpose of financing the implementation of mine risk education activities and informing farmers about mine danger.

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10 May 2011

Croatia
Realization of Humanitarian Demining Plan of the Vukovar-Srijem County

Report
— Government of Croatia

On May 6, in the premises of the Vukovar-Srijem County in Vinkovci, the head of Plan and Analysis Department at the Croatian Mine Action Centre Mrs. Nataša Mateša Mateković informed the County demining co-ordinator Mr. Zlatko Pavloić about the realization of Humanitarian Demining Plan 2011 so far. In the first four months, there were 39% of areas planned for 2011 demined in Vukovar-Srijem County. The most important was the demining of the remainingmine suspected area of the Bogdanovci municipality. The biggest investor was the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

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23 Dec 2010

Croatia
Prime Minister Kosor: EC has granted Croatia's request for aid for natural disasters

Report
— Government of Croatia
ZAGREB, Dec 23 (Hina) - Croatia has received a favourable response from the European Commission to its request for aid in removing the consequences of natural disasters and stands to receive 3.8 million euros for that purpose, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.

"The position of the European Commission is that we may receive over 3.8 million euros, but we're also awaiting the position of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU," Kosor said.

Kosor said this was a good sign that

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06 Dec 2010

Croatia
Croatian-American Golf Foundation from New York Made another Donation for Demining of Croatia

Report
— Government of Croatia
Croatian-American Golf Foundation from New York Made another Donation for Demining of Croatia06.12.2010 Today, December 6, 2010, on this symbolic day when we celebrate the St. Nicholas Day, the representatives of the Croatian-American Golf Foundation brought their gifts to the Republic of Croatia for the fourth time.

In the premises of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, the representative of the Croatian-American Golf Foundation Mr. Željko Matura handed over today a donation cheque to the amount of 50.000 USD to the Vice Prime Minister of the Croatian Government

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25 Nov 2010

Croatia
Germany Continues to Financially Support Mine Action in Croatia with 200.000 EUR for Demining in ?ista Mala

Report
— Government of Croatia
On 25 November 2010, at 13,00 hrs, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed at the German embassy in Zagreb between the Federal Republic of Germany and the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victim Assistance (ITF). The signing ceremony was attended by the Director of CROMAC, Mr. Zdravko Modru=B9an.

German Ambassador Dr. Bernd Fischer and director of ITF Mr. Dorijan Mar=B9iè are signatories of the Memorandum by which the Federal Republic of Germany donates 200.000 EUR for the demining project of around 200 000 square meters on the territory of =C8ista Mala

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01 Oct 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Beginning of Demining Operations on the Area of Tordinci in Vukovar-Srijem County

Report
— Government of Croatia
Today, October 1, 2010, employees of the Croatian Mine Action Centre introduced the company MKA*Deming from =C8akovec to demining operations on the area of Tordinci village in Vukovar-Srijem County.

The ultimate deadline for the completion of operations on 345.058 square meters as per demining project ''Agricultural areas on the territory of Tordinci community'' in Vukovar-Srijem County is scheduled for the period of 40 days from the beginning of operations. The project is worth 3.093.635,71 HRK and it is financed by the State Budget funds.

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02 Sep 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Joint application of Croatian and Hungarian partners for the EU funds

Report
— Government of Croatia
On September 1, 2010 in Pecs, Hungary, the 3rd meeting was held between Croatian and Hungarian partners that will apply for IPA CBC HU-HR programme. Croatian Mine Action Centre has together with Barany county police administration continued on development of project documentation. Joint project called "Rehabilitation of land mine contaminated sites in Drava-Danube area" will be submitted to public tender by September 15, 2010 for IPA CBC Programme Hungary-Croatia funds.

On the Croatian side of the border, mine

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27 Aug 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Demining Operations in Šodolovci Municipality

Report
— Government of Croatia
On August 27, 2010, the employees of the Croatian Mine Action Centre will introduce the company Piper Ltd. from Požega to demining operations as per project ''Area near Velika Osatina canal in Šodolovci municipality'' with layout area of 108.516 m2 in Osijek-Baranja County. Project is financed through the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany donation and operations are worth 884.460 HRK. Deadline for the completion of operations is within 17 days. FR Germany has contributed to Croatian mine action system with donations totalling over 7.2 million EUR.
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27 Aug 2010

Croatia
U.S. Government through ITF selects projects for Mine Victims Assistance in Croatia

Report
— Government of Croatia
On Friday, 27 August 2010, in Ig near Ljubljana, a meeting of the evaluation committee was held with the aim to select the best projects of mine victim assistance which will be implemented in Croatia. On the basis of tender that the International Trust Fund for Humanitarian Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF) has announced, the U.S. Government will finance the projects of mine victims socio-economic rehabilitation in the total value of $ 80,000.

Members of the Evaluation Team, including the representative of CROMAC, considered the submitted project proposals

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06 Aug 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Demining Works in progress

Report
— Government of Croatia
Demining operations are currently being conducted on 43 active worksites totalling 10,889,479 square meters in 8 counties out of which the majority is being realized in Lika-Senj County with12 projects, Osijek-Baranja County with 11 projects and Vukovar Srijem County with 6 projects.

The following activities engaged capacities are 17 companies that possess the authority for conducting humanitarian demining in Croatia.

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12 May 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Beginning of Mine Search and Demining Operations on Over 4 Million Square Meters

Report
— Government of Croatia
In the last two days, the employees of the Croatian Mine Action Centre introduced seven accredited dmining companies (Mungos razminiranje d.o.o, Tornado d.o.o., MKA*Deming d.o.o., Rumital d.o.o., Istraživa? d.o.o., Demin-ka d.o.o. i Diz-eko d.o.o.) to mine search and demining operations based on 9 projects totalling 4.305.193 m².

Operations will be conducted on the territory of seven counties: Osijek-Baranja County (one project totalling 378.136 m² and one project totalling 1.316.256 m²), Sisak-Moslavina County (one

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19 Apr 2010

Croatia
Croatian Forests Invest into Demining of Osijek-Baranja County

Report
— Government of Croatia
On Friday, April 16, 2010, the employees of the Croatian Mine Action Centre introduced the company Centurion Ltd. from Sisak to operations as per demining project ''Forest sections 31 a and c and section 33a in G.J. Dar=F0anske =B9ume'' in Osijek-Baranja County, layout area: 429.154 square meters. The investor is the Croatian Forests Ltd. and the project is worth 2.812.731,70 HRK (no VAT). The deadline for the execution of operations is July 15, 2010. This is one of a number of projects to be financed by the Croatian Forests Ltd. during 2010. They
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07 Apr 2010

Croatia
Croatia: April - Month of Protection from Mines

Report
— Government of Croatia
The Republic of Croatia is one of the countries that cannot dispose of its territory freely due to the fact that 887 km² are still classified as mine suspected area (MSA). MSA extends through 12 counties, 104 towns and municipalities. Almost 1/5 of the entire population of the Republic of Croatia live in mine suspected areas. According to minefield records, there are 93.000 different types of mines and unestablished number of unexploded ordinances and cluster munitions. Stated area has been precisely defined by polygons and marked with over 16.000 mine warning signs. Since
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30 Mar 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Municipalities of Župa Dubrova?ka and Ston Free of Mines

Report
— Government of Croatia
Vice president of the Government of the Republic of Croatia Mrs. ?ur?a Adleši? held a meeting with the county prefect of Dubrovnik-Neretva County Mr. Nikola Dobroslavi?, director of Croatian Mine Action Centre Mr. Oto Jungwirth, county demining coordinator Mr. Niko Limov and representatives of municipalities of Župa dubrova?ka and Ston at which they discussed about realization of demining plan 2009 and plan for 2010.

At the meeting, vice president Adleši? handed over a certificate to the county prefect Dobroslavi? by which Croatian

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01 Mar 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Problematics of Mine Suspected Area (MSA) Marking and Co-operation with Counties

Report
— Government of Croatia
Based on the Law on Humanitarian Demining and other bylaws regulating humanitarian demining, the Croatian Mine Action Centre has executed marking of the entire mine suspected area (MSA) in the Republic of Croatia in that way ensuring the timely warnings and informing of population living near the MSA about the danger threatening from mines.

On January 1, 2010, the entire mine suspected area (MSA) of the Republic of Croatia was marked with 16.027 mine warning signs. The position of mine warning signs is one of the basic elements

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26 Feb 2010

Croatia
Croatia: Japanese Government Donated Funds for Demining of Glina

Report
— Government of Croatia
On Thursday, 25 February 2010, in the Town of Glina City Hall, there was an official ceremony of signing the Grant Contract held for the purpose of demining of ''Agricultural areas in Marinbrod'', Glina, Sisak-Moslavina County. The donation has been made for the project of 220.000 square meters consisting of agricultural areas.

The contract was signed by H.E. Mr. Yoshio Tamura, the Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Croatia and director of the Croatian Mine Action Centre Mr. Oto Jungwirth. The signing ceremony was attended by Mr. ?uro Brodarac, the chairman of CROMAC Council, Mr.

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03 Feb 2010

Croatia
Croatia: First Million Square Meters Cleared in January

Report
— Government of Croatia
In spit of extremely bad weather conditions and many suspensions of demining operations on most worksites in Croatia, still there were 1.250.000 square meters cleared in January 2010 in the costal zone. Active worksites are those in Zadar County, Šibenik-Knin County, Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva County where this result has been achieved. Occasionally, the operations are suspended due to heavy rains or low temperatures, but not for long. However, in the continental part of Croatia, the situation is a lot more difficult due to the fact

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