The Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts is an independent professional business organization of tradesmen and craftsmen, founded with the aim of promoting, coordinating and representing the joint interests of tradesmanship and craftsmanship.

• The Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts represents tradesmen and craftsmen before the state and other authorities in Croatia and abroad.
• The Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts is a legal entity.
• The Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts has public authorities.
• The members of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts are tradesman and craftsmen who perform a trade on the territory of the Republic of Croatia.
• Membership in the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts is mandatory.
• County chambers are joined in the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts.

TASKS

The tasks of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts are the following: promoting trades and crafts, representing tradesmen and craftsmen’s interests before state authorities and in the forming of economic policies, providing state authorities with opinions and suggestions when passing regulations concerning trades and crafts, founding commissions for apprentice and master’s exams, tradesmen and craftsmen’s activities, founding of the arbitration council, keeping a register of tradesmen and craftsmen, keeping a register of apprenticeship contracts, assisting tradesmen and craftsmen in establishing and operating a trade/craft business, performance of other tasks stipulated by the law and legislative documents of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts.

BODIES OF THE CHAMBER

• ASSEMBLY
• STEERING COMMITTEE
• SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE
• PRESIDENT

In order to coordinate and address professional issues dealing with their respective branches of the economy, tradesmen and craftsmen organize into sections and guilds — professional organizations at the level of tradesmen associations, county chambers and at the national level of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts. Forms of professional activity in tradesmen associations, county chambers and the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts are the following:

• sections — at the level of tradesmen associations (UO)
• guilds — at the level of county chambers (POKs)
• guilds at the level of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts (HOK)

The guilds of the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts coordinate the activities of the respective guilds at the level of county chambers with the aim of solving or introducing specific issues of common interest at the Chamber level. 

Within guilds, it is possible to organize sections in order to coordinate and solve specific problems of individual trades and crafts belonging to a single guild (the textile, leather and fur section, the bakers’ section, the construction workers’ section, the photograph).