NUMBER AND STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES, DECEMBER 2004
In the Release "Number and
Structure of Business Entities", which has been published quarterly and
bilingually since 1999, the contents of data have been changed in such a way
that data on registered legal entities from the Register of Business Entities
of the Central Bureau of Statistics were supplemented with data from registers
and administrative records of other state institutions, such as the Register of
Tax Payers, the Register of Legal Entities' Accounts, the Register of Active
Insured Persons of the Pension Insurance, etc.
This change has occurred in order
to achieve better understanding of data on the number and structure of business
entities, while, by linking them, legal entities were distinguished by
activity, largeness and type of ownership. In addition, it was made possible to
supplement these data with the ones on crafts and free-lances.
1. BUSINESS ENTITIES, DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Number of |
Number of |
Share of active |
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
215 682 |
96 589 |
44,8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade companies |
88 867 |
72 489 |
81,6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Enterprises and
co-operatives |
83 274 |
14 315 |
17,2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Institutions, bodies,
associations and organisations |
43 541 |
9 785 |
22,5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Entities in crafts and trades |
- |
96 515 |
- |
Comparison
of the number of legal entities in the Register of the Central Bureau of
Statistics and active legal entities in administrative registers shows that the
share of legal entities is less than a half (44.8%).
This difference is the smallest in trade companies, as entities of this
kind are either harmonised or newly created according to the Company Law. It
should be noted that about 18.4% of those entities are not active, though.
Enterprises and co-operatives are entities having the greatest absolute
difference, which relates mostly to entities that failed to submit a request
for harmonising with the Company Law. After this procedure has been finished,
such entities will be deleted from the Register. The majority of active
entities in this category (about 14 000) will be transferred to the category of
trade companies, through the harmonisation procedure.
Within the
category of institutions, bodies, associations and organisations, the
difference between two kinds of data is not the consequence of their
inactivity, which was the case in the two previous categories. The treatment of
registration of entities of this kind in the
Register of the Central Bureau of Statistics differs from registration
procedures in other administrative registers. For example, the Register of the Central Bureau of Statistics
procedure registers each body of local and regional self-government units
individually, while administrative registers take into consideration accounts
through which entities run their business.
Data on the number of entities in crafts and free-lances relate to the
number of self-employed entrepreneurs, with or without employees, as well as
persons who are engaged in professional activity, according to the Pension
Insurance records.
2. STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES BY ACTIVITY
AND NKD 2002. SECTIONS, DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Number of legal entities |
Active legal entities |
Crafts and |
||||
|
Registered |
Structure of |
Active |
Structure |
Profit |
Non-profit |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
215
682 |
100 |
96
589 |
100 |
86
804 |
9
785 |
96
515 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Agriculture, hunting and forestry |
3
673 |
1,7 |
1
936 |
2,0 |
1
934 |
2 |
1
452 |
|
B Fishing |
555 |
0,3 |
247 |
0,3 |
247 |
- |
1
659 |
|
C Mining and quarrying |
311 |
0,1 |
210 |
0,2 |
210 |
- |
121 |
|
D Manufacturing |
20
692 |
9,6 |
12
199 |
12,6 |
12
191 |
8 |
12
339 |
|
E Electricity, gas and water supply |
216 |
0,1 |
165 |
0,2 |
164 |
1 |
- |
|
F Construction |
13
602 |
6,3 |
8
205 |
8,5 |
8
195 |
10 |
10
918 |
|
G Wholesale and retail trade; |
85
761 |
39,8 |
36
071 |
37,3 |
35
983 |
88 |
20
932 |
|
H Hotels and restaurants |
7
479 |
3,5 |
3
909 |
4,0 |
3
864 |
45 |
12
854 |
|
I Transport, storage and |
9
674 |
4,5 |
4
976 |
5,2 |
4
954 |
22 |
9
138 |
|
J Financial intermediation |
1
610 |
0,7 |
987 |
1,0 |
986 |
1 |
499 |
|
K Real estate, renting and |
24
469 |
11,3 |
15
265 |
15,8 |
15
190 |
75 |
9
900 |
|
L Public administration and defence; |
3
379 |
1,6 |
1
002 |
1,0 |
4 |
998 |
3 |
|
M Education |
3
103 |
1,4 |
2
326 |
2,4 |
574 |
1
752 |
139 |
|
N Health and social work |
2
891 |
1,3 |
1
203 |
1,2 |
204 |
999 |
6
142 |
|
O Other community, social and |
38
210 |
17,7 |
7
887 |
8,2 |
2
104 |
5
783 |
9
355 |
|
P Activities of households |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
331 |
|
Q Extra-territorial organizations |
57 |
0,0 |
1 |
0,0 |
- |
1 |
- |
|
Unknown |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
733 |
Data on the
structure of business entities by economic activities show that more than three
quarters of both registered and active entities belong to the following four
activity sections: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles,
motorcycles and personal and household goods with 39.8% registered and 37.3%
active entities; Manufacturing with 9.6% registered and 12.6% active entities;
Real estate, renting and business activities with 11.3% registered and 15.8%
active entities, and Other community, social and personal service activities,
where the difference between the number of registered (17.7%) and active (8.2%)
entities is the largest.
The share of profit entities in
the total active business entities is 89.9%. Their structure by economic
activities shows that 90% of them belong to five activity sections in the
following order: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles,
motorcycles and personal and household goods (41.5%); Real estate, renting and
business activities (17.5%); Manufacturing (14.0%); Construction (9.4%) and
Transport, storage and communication (5.7%).
The share of
non-profit entities is 10.1%. More than a half of them are classified into the
activity section Other community, social and personal service activities, while
the remaining half is distributed between Education (17.9%), Health and social
work (10.2%) and Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
(10.2%).
Structure of
entities in crafts and trades and free lances by economic activities is more
balanced as compared to the structure of business entities. Although the most
frequent crafts and free lances activity section is again Wholesale and retail
trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods,
its share is nevertheless slightly higher than one fifth. Beside trade, four
other activities cover two thirds of the total number of entities.
3. STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES BY OWNERSHIP
TYPES AND NKD 2002. SECTIONS,
DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Total |
Ownership
types |
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|
State ownership |
Private ownership |
Co-operative
ownership |
Mixed ownership |
No ownership |
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|
The number |
Share |
The number |
Share |
The number |
Share |
The number |
Share |
The number |
Share |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
96 589 |
1 127 |
1,2 |
82 529 |
85,4 |
1 040 |
1,1 |
2 108 |
2,2 |
9 785 |
10,1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Agriculture,
hunting and |
1 936 |
41 |
2,1 |
1 373 |
70,9 |
428 |
22,1 |
92 |
4,8 |
2 |
0,1 |
|
B Fishing |
247 |
4 |
1,6 |
219 |
88,7 |
17 |
6,9 |
7 |
2,8 |
- |
- |
|
C Mining
and quarrying |
210 |
8 |
3,8 |
180 |
85,7 |
5 |
2,4 |
17 |
8,1 |
- |
- |
|
D Manufacturing |
12 199 |
211 |
1,7 |
11 303 |
92,7 |
101 |
0,8 |
576 |
4,7 |
8 |
0,1 |
|
E Electricity,
gas and water supply |
165 |
117 |
70,9 |
39 |
23,6 |
- |
- |
8 |
4,8 |
1 |
0,6 |
|
F Construction |
8 205 |
91 |
1,1 |
7 867 |
95,9 |
74 |
0,9 |
163 |
2,0 |
10 |
0,1 |
|
G Wholesale
and retail trade; |
36 071 |
146 |
0,4 |
35 117 |
97,4 |
151 |
0,4 |
569 |
1,6 |
88 |
0,2 |
|
H Hotels
and restaurants |
3 909 |
66 |
1,7 |
3 609 |
92,3 |
12 |
0,3 |
177 |
4,5 |
45 |
1,2 |
|
I Transport,
storage and |
4 976 |
89 |
1,8 |
4 723 |
94,9 |
18 |
0,4 |
124 |
2,5 |
22 |
0,4 |
|
J Financial
intermediation |
987 |
27 |
2,7 |
736 |
74,6 |
186 |
18,8 |
37 |
3,7 |
1 |
0,1 |
|
K Real
estate, renting and |
15 265 |
173 |
1,1 |
14 733 |
96,5 |
36 |
0,2 |
248 |
1,6 |
75 |
0,5 |
|
L Public
administration and |
1 002 |
2 |
0,2 |
2 |
0,2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
998 |
99,6 |
|
M Education |
2 326 |
4 |
0,2 |
562 |
24,2 |
1 |
0,0 |
7 |
0,3 |
1 752 |
75,3 |
|
N Health
and social work |
1 203 |
16 |
1,3 |
160 |
13,3 |
- |
- |
28 |
2,3 |
999 |
83,0 |
|
O Other
community, social |
7 887 |
132 |
1,7 |
1 906 |
24,2 |
11 |
0,1 |
55 |
0,7 |
5 783 |
73,3 |
|
P Activities
of households |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Q Extra-territorial |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
100,0 |
The structure of active legal
entities by ownership types shows that the private ownership predominates with
85.4% entities, 1.2% of entities are owned by the state, 2.2% of them are in in
the category of mixed ownership, only 1.1% entities are in co-operative
ownership, while ownership of 10.1% legal entities has not been monitored.
The ownership structure by
activities shows that privately owned entities are predominant in services,
e.g. in Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and
personal and household goods, with the share of 97.4%, in Real estate, renting
and business activities, with the share of 96.5%, and in Transport, storage and
communications, with the share of 94.9%. Approximately the same share of
private ownership exists in the productive activities such as Construction,
with 95.9%, Manufacturing, with 92.7%, and Fishing, with 88.7%.
4. NUMBER OF
ACTIVE LEGAL ENTITIES BY NKD 2002. SECTIONS AND BY THE NUMBER OF PERSONS IN
EMPLOYMENT, DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Total |
Number of
persons in employment |
|||||
|
0 |
1 – 9 |
10 – 49 |
50 – 49 |
250 – 499 |
500 and more |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
96
589 |
43
773 |
43
231 |
6
965 |
2
177 |
258 |
185 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Agriculture, hunting and forestry |
1
936 |
1
021 |
700 |
135 |
69 |
5 |
6 |
|
B Fishing |
247 |
113 |
105 |
25 |
3 |
1 |
- |
|
C Mining and quarrying |
210 |
115 |
56 |
24 |
13 |
1 |
1 |
|
D Manufacturing |
12
199 |
4
794 |
5
442 |
1
213 |
548 |
113 |
89 |
|
E Electricity, gas and water supply |
165 |
33 |
22 |
43 |
55 |
8 |
4 |
|
F Construction |
8
205 |
3
660 |
3
537 |
809 |
170 |
15 |
14 |
|
G Wholesale and retail trade; |
36
071 |
14
366 |
19
467 |
1
954 |
235 |
31 |
18 |
|
H Hotels and restaurants |
3
909 |
2
182 |
1
325 |
279 |
101 |
14 |
8 |
|
I Transport, storage and |
4
976 |
2
144 |
2
478 |
244 |
81 |
11 |
18 |
|
J Financial intermediation |
987 |
357 |
519 |
65 |
33 |
7 |
6 |
|
K Real estate, renting and |
15
265 |
7
156 |
7
441 |
545 |
102 |
14 |
7 |
|
L Public administration and defence; |
1
002 |
57 |
477 |
336 |
105 |
19 |
8 |
|
M Education |
2
326 |
343 |
511 |
913 |
548 |
9 |
2 |
|
N Health and social work |
1
203 |
667 |
254 |
214 |
66 |
2 |
- |
|
O Other community, social and |
7
887 |
6
764 |
897 |
166 |
48 |
8 |
4 |
|
P Activities of households |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Q Extra-territorial organizations |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
By examining the structure of active legal
entities according to the number of persons in paid employment, it should be
noted that the highest share of 45.3% belongs to entities with no persons in
employment, followed by 44.8% entities with 1 – 9 persons in employment, 7.2%
entities with 10-49 persons in employment, 2.3% medium-sized entities with 50 -
249 persons in employment, and the share of only 0.5% belonging to entities
with more than 250 persons in employment.
It should be noted that the
structure of medium-sized and large entities by economic activities is more
uniform, as compared to small entities. The largest part of small entities
belongs to the Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles,
motorcycles and personal and household goods. The share of entities in this
activity is rapidly decreasing by the size of entities. Medium-sized entities
are mostly represented in Manufacturing (the share of 25.2%). There are 48.1%
of large entities in Manufacturing as well.
5. TRADE
COMPANIES BY NKD 2002. SECTIONS AND BY LEGAL ORGANISATIONAL FORMS AND ACTIVITY,
DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Legal
organisational forms |
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|
Total |
Joint stock |
Limited
liability |
Limited |
Public trade |
Main
subsidaries |
Other legal
forms |
|
|||||||||
|
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
Total
|
88
867 |
72
489 |
1
905 |
1
797 |
86
078 |
70
070 |
94 |
73 |
384 |
299 |
317 |
217 |
89 |
33 |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
A Agriculture,
hunting and forestry |
1
566 |
1
300 |
78 |
75 |
1
479 |
1
220 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
|
B Fishing |
234 |
199 |
10 |
10 |
224 |
189 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
|
C Mining
and quarying |
233 |
194 |
16 |
16 |
215 |
176 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
||
|
D Manufacturing |
11
903 |
10
229 |
680 |
646 |
11
172 |
9
548 |
5 |
4 |
12 |
9 |
32 |
22 |
2 |
- |
||
|
E Electricity,
gas and water supply |
195 |
161 |
8 |
7 |
186 |
153 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
|
F Construction |
8
468 |
7
118 |
200 |
190 |
8
145 |
6
837 |
2 |
2 |
16 |
15 |
105 |
74 |
- |
- |
||
|
G Wholesale and retail trade; repair |
37
313 |
29
315 |
304 |
281 |
36
890 |
28
962 |
13 |
8 |
26 |
16 |
78 |
47 |
2 |
1 |
||
|
H Hotels
and restaurants |
4
461 |
3
483 |
175 |
168 |
4
275 |
3
311 |
- |
- |
4 |
- |
6 |
4 |
1 |
- |
||
|
I Transport, storage and |
4
979 |
4
152 |
93 |
88 |
4
852 |
4
039 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
7 |
24 |
15 |
1 |
1 |
||
|
J Financial
intermediation |
869 |
720 |
118 |
112 |
741 |
603 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
3 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
||
|
K Real
estate, renting and |
15
495 |
13
027 |
169 |
157 |
14
888 |
12
525 |
66 |
53 |
308 |
244 |
63 |
48 |
1 |
- |
||
|
L Public
administration and defence; |
9 |
4 |
2 |
- |
6 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
||
M Education
|
548 |
490 |
3 |
3 |
544 |
486 |
- |
- |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
|
|
|
184 |
13 |
12 |
190 |
172 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
|
O Other
community, social and personal
service activities |
2
391 |
1
913 |
36 |
32 |
2
271 |
1
845 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
75 |
28 |
||
|
P Activities
of households |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
|
Q Extra-territorial
organizations |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||
Limited liability companies are markedly
predominant in the structure of trade companies by legal organisational forms
with the share of 96.9% of registered and 96.7% of active companies. Joint
stock companies follow with the share of 2.1% of registered and 2.5% of active
companies. Other legal forms of trade companies have the share of the remaining
0.9%.
6. REGISTERED
NON-PROFIT LEGAL ENTITIES BY NKD 2002. SECTIONS AND BY ACTIVITY AND LEGAL
ORGANISATIONAL FORMS, DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Total |
Share of |
Groups of legal constitutional formation |
||
|
Associations, institutions, |
State |
Not harmonised |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
43
541 |
22,5 |
40
198 |
2
738 |
605 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Agriculture, hunting and forestry |
15 |
13,3 |
5 |
- |
10 |
|
B Fishing |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
|
C Mining and quarrying |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
|
D Manufacturing |
89 |
9,0 |
12 |
- |
77 |
|
E Electricity, gas and water supply |
3 |
33,3 |
1 |
- |
2 |
|
F Construction |
77 |
13,0 |
7 |
- |
70 |
|
G Wholesale and retail trade; |
189 |
46,6 |
169 |
- |
20 |
|
H Hotels and restaurants |
57 |
78,9 |
46 |
- |
11 |
|
I Transport, storage and |
36 |
61,1 |
30 |
- |
6 |
|
J Financial intermediation |
3 |
33,3 |
3 |
- |
- |
|
K Real estate, renting and |
137 |
54,7 |
98 |
- |
39 |
|
L Public administration and defence; |
3
369 |
29,6 |
617 |
2
738 |
14 |
|
M Education |
2
204 |
79,5 |
1
952 |
- |
252 |
|
N Health and social work |
2
630 |
38,0 |
2
589 |
- |
41 |
|
O Other community, social and |
34
672 |
16,7 |
34
612 |
- |
60 |
|
P Activities of households |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Q Extra-territorial organizations |
57 |
1,8 |
57 |
- |
- |
The structure of registered
non-profit legal entities by legal forms shows that associations, institutions,
co-operations, funds, etc. have the share of 92.3%, state government bodies and
bodies of local and regional self-government units have the share of 6.3%, and
the remaining 1.4% are not harmonised entities.
Considering their activity,
slightly more than one fourth (22.5%) are active. Their structure by activities
shows that they are entities belonging to four activity sections: Other
community, social and personal service activities, with even 79.6% registered,
and out of them only 16.7% active entities, Public administration and defence;
compulsory social security, with 7.7% registered and out of them 29.6% active entities,
Health and social work, with the similar share of registered and active
entities, and Education, with 5.1% registered, but with the largest share of
active entities (79.5%).
7. STRUCTURE
OF BUSINESS ENTITIES BY COUNTIES, DECEMBER 2004
|
|
Total registered |
Trade companies |
Enterprises and |
Registered
institutions, |
Entities in
crafts and trades and |
||
|
Registered |
Active |
Registered |
Active |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Republic of Croatia |
215
682 |
88
867 |
72
489 |
83
274 |
14
315 |
43
541 |
96 515 |
|
County of Zagreb |
13
339 |
4
854 |
3
998 |
6
162 |
1
459 |
2
323 |
6
564 |
|
County of Krapina-Zagorje |
3
961 |
1
246 |
1
050 |
1
459 |
342 |
1
256 |
3
068 |
|
County of Sisak-Moslavina |
5
564 |
1
278 |
1
097 |
2
127 |
678 |
2
159 |
2
618 |
|
County of Karlovac |
4
957 |
1
874 |
1
615 |
1
513 |
201 |
1
570 |
2
653 |
|
County of Varaždin |
6
299 |
2
722 |
2
305 |
1
848 |
268 |
1
729 |
3
350 |
|
County of Koprivnica-Križevci |
3
839 |
1
554 |
1
286 |
1
114 |
177 |
1
171 |
1
896 |
|
County of Bjelovar-Bilogora |
4
398 |
1
796 |
1
421 |
1
090 |
72 |
1
512 |
1
931 |
|
County of Primorje-Gorski kotar |
18
075 |
8
356 |
6
782 |
6
530 |
1
037 |
3
189 |
9
228 |
|
County of Lika-Senj |
1
777 |
607 |
511 |
460 |
77 |
710 |
1
082 |
|
County of Virovitica-Podravina |
2
442 |
867 |
723 |
568 |
75 |
1
007 |
1
392 |
|
County of Požega-Slavonia |
2
495 |
692 |
608 |
945 |
152 |
858 |
1
182 |
|
County of Slavonski
Brod-Posavina |
4
611 |
1
556 |
1
254 |
1
601 |
220 |
1
454 |
3
144 |
|
County of Zadar |
6
422 |
2
198 |
1
824 |
2
678 |
423 |
1
546 |
4
439 |
|
County of Osijek-Baranja |
8
152 |
4
172 |
3
482 |
738 |
191 |
3
242 |
4
718 |
|
County of Šibenik-Knin |
4
684 |
1
616 |
1
360 |
1
937 |
298 |
1
131 |
2
534 |
|
County of Vukovar-Sirmium |
3
611 |
1
568 |
1
205 |
396 |
103 |
1
647 |
3
105 |
|
County of Split-Dalmatia |
26
947 |
10
055 |
8
362 |
13
038 |
1
135 |
3
854 |
10
521 |
|
County of Istria |
15
660 |
7
259 |
5
924 |
5
981 |
790 |
2
420 |
8
175 |
|
County of Dubrovnik-Neretva |
4
849 |
2
501 |
2
173 |
715 |
182 |
1
633 |
2
570 |
|
County of Međimurje |
4
766 |
1
997 |
1
731 |
1
692 |
530 |
1
077 |
1
998 |
|
City of Zagreb |
68
834 |
30
099 |
23
778 |
30
682 |
5
905 |
8
053 |
20
347 |
Data on territorial distribution
of business entities at the county level
show that slightly less than one third of the total number of registered
business entities are situated in the City of Zagreb. The City of Zagreb,
however, has significantly lower share in entities in crafts and free lances
(21.1%). The County of Split-Dalmatia follows, with the share of 12.5% of
business entities and 10.9% of natural persons.
Three other counties have their
share larger than 5% of registered business entities: the County of
Primorje-Gorski Kotar, 8.4%, the County of Istria, 7.3% and the County of
Zagreb, 6.2%. The number of natural persons comes in the same order.
Territorial structure of active
trade companies, enterprises and co-operatives is yet different as compared to
the structure of registered ones. Hence, the City of Zagreb has the share of
31.7% of registered, and 32.8% of active entities, while the share of the
second largest county, the County of Split-Dalmatia, is higher in active
(10.8%) than in registered (10.5%) entities.
8. CREATING, DELETING AND HARMONISING OF
REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITIES, 2003 AND 2004
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|
2003. |
2004. |
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|
1st quarter |
2nd quarter |
3rd quarter |
4th quarter |
1st quarter |
2nd quarter |
3rd quarter |
4th quarter |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Creating |
2
402 |
2
189 |
2
028 |
2
534 |
2
650 |
2
379 |
2
141 |
2 569 |
|
Of that: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade companies |
1
593 |
1
503 |
1
398 |
1
803 |
1
796 |
1
623 |
1
566 |
1 934 |
|
Other |
809 |
686 |
630 |
731 |
854 |
756 |
575 |
635 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deleting |
965 |
918 |
171 |
837 |
278 |
141 |
108 |
181 |
|
Of that: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Enterprises |
187 |
401 |
47 |
383 |
113 |
25 |
10 |
56 |
|
Trade companies |
290 |
120 |
108 |
175 |
112 |
102 |
89 |
108 |
|
Other |
488 |
397 |
16 |
279 |
53 |
14 |
9 |
17 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Harmonising according
to the Company Law |
579 |
446 |
327 |
372 |
399 |
304 |
224 |
239 |
Data
on changes of registered entities are divided into three groups: creating,
deleting and harmonising; they show that the number of creations, deletions and
harmonisations and deletions decreased in the respective period.
The share of trade companies in the number of newly
created entities is approximately two thirds in the given period.
NOTES ON METHODOLOGY
Sources
and methods of data collection
Based
on the Act on the National Classification of Activities (NN, No. 98/94), the
Decision on the National Classification of Activities − NKD 2002. (NN, No. 13/03) and the Regulation on
the Classification of Business Entities according to the National
Classification of Activities − NKD 2002. (NN, No. 52/03),
the Central Bureau of Statistics keeps the Register of Business Entities. The
Register comprises legal entities, state goverment bodies, and bodies of local
and regional self-goverment units as well as parts of these entities, which
means that natural persons that are engaged in activities according to
regulations are not, for now, included in the Register.
By registration, each business
entity is assigned a seven-digit registration number, while its constituent
parts, beside that number, are assigned also an additional four-digit ordinal
number.
Moreover, each business entity
and its part are assigned an activity code according to the NKD 2002.
The NKD 2002. is based on the
European classification of economic activities − NACE, Rev. 1. 1 – that is
obligatory for the EU Number States.
Registered
business entities are classified according to their prevailing activities in
such a way that the subclass of the main activity is defined, according to the
NKD 2002. When a business entity is, by a decision on registration with the
competent authority or by law, appointed a higher class, the first
classification by the NKD 2002. is made upon the proposal of the business
entity. Every subsequent classification of the business entitiy resulting in
the change of the main activity is made in the following cases:
1)
upon the request of the business entity and
2)
upon official duty, based on the change of
the decision on registration with the competent authory or change in the law,
or based on statistical survey results, respectively.
The activity
of the constituent parts of a business entity is established by the decision on
registration with the competent authority or by the law
on establishment of the activity of the business entity they make part of.
Registration change and
withdrawal of business entities and their constituent parts are daily updated
in the Register. The sources for the Register of Business Entities are as
follows:
1) Registers kept by:
- trade
courts
- ministries
(e.g. the Ministry of Justice,
the Ministry of Health and
Social Welfare)
- offices of state administration
in counties
- other
registration bodies
2) Laws, decisions and other legal documents
published in Narodne novine.
Registered entities are
structured according to the legal basis as follows:
- trade
companies, enterprises, co-operatives and institutions are registered in the
Register upon the decision of registration bodies (trade courts), making 81.64%
of registered entities in the Register
-
state government bodies and bodies of local and regional
self-government units registered in the Register according to the law, with a
share of 1.27%, and
- other
entities, such as associations, societies and foundations, which are registered
in the Register according to specific laws, with a share of 17.09%.
Difficulties in updating of
significant proportion of units in the register are the consequence of
long-term transition periods during which register bodies were harmonising
entities according to the new law regulations. That postponed the procedure of
deleting entities which have not submitted the request for harmonisation with
the new regulations.
A lack in the coverage of the Register is related to legal entities that carry out activities of crafts and
free lance.
In order to make available data
as useful as possible, the Register data were entities linked, using this
seven-digit registration number as a key, with administrative databases. In
this way, the usefulness of data in this Release was improved.
Definitions
Business entities are legal entities and natural persons that are engaged in activities
according to regulations as well as state government bodies and bodies of local
and regional self-government units.
Registered legal entities are units that are registered in The Register of
Business Entities kept by the Central Bureau of Statistics. These are: trade
companies, enterprises, institutions, co-operatives, associations, political
parties and other non-harmonised units which held a legal subjectivity status
according to previous laws, as well as state government bodies and bodies of
local and regional self goverment bodies.
Active legal entities are units
that are registered in the Register of Business Entities, as listed in the
previous definition, for which the active or non-active status was determined
upon data from the register of tax payers (annual tax return for 2000.) and
data from the register of payment transactions (annual financial statistical
report for 2000). In order to update those data, all changes of registered
units have been added to matching data (creating, deleting and updating) over
the period from January 2001 to December 2004, according to procedures of
keeping the Register of Business Entities.
Natural persons are units that carry out activities in line with regulations, and those
are crafts and trades and different kinds of free-lances. Data on these units
are given according to the records of active insured persons in the Pension
Fund.
Main activity is an activity established according to the lergest share in the total
value added in the case of business entities that make profit through
production, trade, or rendering of services on the market or by the largest
share in the number of persons in employment according to the payroll and gross
paid-off salaries in the case of business entities that do not make profit
through production, trade and rendering of services on the market.
Registration number is a permanent identification characteristic of each particular
business entity that is used in all statistical surveys and is compulsory in
the data exchange with courts, state goverment bodies local and regional
self-goverment bodies as well as with legal entities with public authorities.
It is determined by the allocation of the control number according to module
11.
Legal organisational form is the
characteristic of registered units determined by law upon which the unit was
created (e.g. joint-stock companies, limited liability companies, etc.
according to the Company Law).
Kind of ownership is the characteristic of units entered into the Register of Business
Entities which indicates the ownership structure of the unit.
Number of persons in employment is the
feature used for indicating the size and structure of business entities. It is
derived from the annual financial statistical report used for payment
transactions. In order to uptade this feature, as indicated in tables, data
have been harmonised with regular monthly statistical survey that covers
employment.
Abbreviations
NKD 2002. National
Classification of Activities, 2002 version
NN Narodne
novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia
EU European Union
Symbols
- no occurrence
0,0 value not zero but less
than 0,05 of the unit of measure
used