Directorate for Financial Management, Internal Audit and Supervision

Assistant Minister:
tel: ++385 1 4591 176, fax: ++385 1 4591 125
e-mail contactFinancial Inspectorate

Head of Inspectorate: Slavica Pezer Blečić
Ulica grada Vukovara 72, Zagreb
tel: ++385 1 6345 317, fax: ++385 1 6345 320
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Anti-Money Laundering Office
Head of office: Ivica Maros
Ulica grada Vukovara 72, Zagreb
tel: ++385 1 6345 455, fax: ++385 1 6345 452
e-mail contact

Sector for Harmonization of Internal Audit and Financial Control
tel: ++385 1 4585 901, fax: ++385 1 4585 903
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Sector for Financial and Budget Supervision
tel: ++385 1 4585 026, fax: ++385 1 4585 123
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Service for Construction and Maintenance of Border Crossings
tel: ++385 1 4591 035, fax: ++385 1 4591 321
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Internal Audit Service
tel: ++385 1 4591 279, fax: ++385 1 4591 704
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Internal Supervision Service
tel: ++385 1 4591 333
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Within the Directorate for Financial Management, Internal Audit and Supervision, the following tasks are carried out: administrative and professional tasks referring to the supervision of reporting entities obliged to apply regulations establishing the prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism, regulations establishing foreign exchange  operations, cross-border business operations, business operations with foreign means of payment in the country, and other regulations on the fields falling within the competence of the Financial Inspectorate, conducting first-instance misdemeanour proceedings for misdemeanours falling within the competence of the Financial Inspectorate; tasks regarding the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism; coordination of the establishment and development of the comprehensive internal financial control system in the public sector of the Republic of Croatia which includes financial management and controls as well as internal audit, and is developed in line with EU standards and practice; inspectional supervision of legality, purposefulness and timeliness of the use of State Budget funds within central state administration bodies, institutions and other State Budget users and within local and regional self-government units; supervision of full and timely collection of revenues falling within the competence of State Budget users and local and regional self-government units; budget supervision within extra-budgetary funds, companies and other legal persons in which the state has a decisive influence on management, at legal and natural persons that receive funds from the Budget and financial plans of extra-budgetary users; undertaking measures for the removal of determined illegalities and irregularities; keeping and updating the register of persons in charge of irregularities; based on the delivered reports by competent Ministries and other state administration bodies, as well as by local and regional self-government units, drawing-up of the consolidated report on the number and type of determined irregularities in previous year and on the actions undertaken upon irregularities from previous periods; monitoring and reporting to competent bodies and institutions on the implementation on anti-corruption measures at the level of the Ministry of Finance; participation in the implementation of strategic documents related to the protection of EU financial interests and in the work of the AFCOS network and, in relation to that, performance of the inspection supervision; monitoring the payment of concession fees; organization and performance of financial supervision of legality, regularity and timeliness of concession calculation, reporting and payment and undertaking measures upon the determined irregularities; planning, preparing and organizing the construction, equipping and reconstruction of new border crossings and turning over thereof, as well as the investment and current maintenance of newly-built and existing border crossings, and, in relation to that, performance of procurement procedures in line with the public procurement regulations; implementation of the decisions of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and harmonization of the needs of other Ministries and state administration bodies which operate at border crossings as part of their civil service; participation in the work of joint commissions and working groups with the representatives of neighbouring countries; supervision of the collection of payment at border terminals and of the usage thereof; organization of the production of control blocks for the collection of payment at border terminals and keeping records thereof; providing exemptions from payment of terminal services; performance of the internal audit for the whole Ministry and giving expert opinions and advice with an aim to improve the management and the risk and internal control system management. The Internal Audit is independent in performing its scope of work, and it is accountable for its work to the Minister and the Deputy Minister.

Within the Directorate for Financial Management, Internal Audit and Supervision, the following units are established: