Physical planning:

1. Construction land is a piece of land inside and outside the construction area, already constructed upon or intended for construction of buildings and public areas in accordance with physical plans.
2. A construction plot is a plot of land with access to a traffic area which is either already constructed, or the size, shape and construction of which (amounting to one or several plots of land or parts thereof) are planned to be determined in accordance with the provisions of the physical plan.
3. Building sections (floors) and height: The ground floor (GF) is the building section situated immediately on land surface, or at a max. 1.5 m above the finalised, flat terrain, as measured at the lowest point of the building's façade, or the section situated above a basement or a street-level basement (below a floor or roof). The street-level basement (SLB) is the building section situated under the ground floor (GF) floor, with up to 50% of its volume under the finalised, flat terrain by the building's façade, or with at least one of it sections above ground. The basement (B) is the fully underground section of the building, its area situated below the ground floor (GF) or street-level basement (SLB) floor. A floor (F) is the building section with an area situated between two floors, above the ground floor (GF). The attic (A) is the building section with its area situated above the top floor and immediately below a slanted or rounded roof.
The height of the building is measured from the finalised, flat terrain at the lowest point of the building's façade to the topmost edge of the top floor ceiling construction, or to the top of the attic wall, the height of which must not exceed 1.2m.
The total height of the building is measured from the finalised, flat terrain at its lowest point next to the building's façade to the highest point of the roof.
4. The coastline is the tidal wave line on the shore.
5. To equip a piece of construction land is to ensure the conditions for construction and for the connection to the public infrastructure, which in turn ensures construction and land utilisation in accordance with the designation specified in the physical planning document.
6. A public area is any area intended to be used by everyone and under the same terms (public roads, streets, squares, markets, playgrounds, etc.).
7. A traffic area is a public area, or an area owned by the construction plot owner, or an area on which the right of way has been established, and which ensures access to construction plots.

IMPLEMENTATION OF PHYSICAL PLANNING DOCUMENTS:

Location permit:
- Any construction work on the real estate must be performed in accordance with the physical planning documents, special regulations and the location permit.
- The location permit is an administrative act issued pursuant to this Act and the regulations adopted pursuant to this Act, as well as in accordance with the physical planning documents and special regulations.
- In the event of a divergence of international physical planning documents for a surrounding and a wider area, the location permit is issued on the basis of the physical planning documents regulating the wider area.
- A location permit must be obtained in the process of reaching a concession decision on the basis of which construction work will be performed at the site.
- A location permit can be issued for all buildings except those whose construction (gross) area is up to 400m2, buildings exclusively designated for agricultural activities whose construction gross area is up to 600m2, and for simple buildings and construction works.
Competence for issuing location permits:
Location permits are issued by the competent administrative body:
- Counties on whose territory the construction works are planned, if they are to be performed outside the limits of a large city, or if the construction works are planned for an area of two or several local self-government units.
- The City of Zagreb for construction works planned on its territory.
- A large city on whose territory the construction works are planned.
The Ministry issues location permits for construction works in areas defined by governmental decree, and for construction works planned for an area of two or several counties or the City of Zagreb.

Amendments to the location permit
The location permit applicant must obtain the amendments to the location permit if, during the drafting of the main design or during construction, he intends to modify the construction works thus changing the location provisions of this Act, while contemporaneously not changing their harmonisation with the physical plan on the basis of which the location permit was initially issued.

Deadline for issuing a location permit
The location permit request must be processed by the Ministry within sixty days, and by the competent administrative authority within thirty days from the submission of the full request and obtained documents.

Right to an appeal
An appeal against a location permit issued by a competent administrative authority can be lodged to the Ministry. An appeal against a location permit issued by the Ministry cannot be lodged, but an administrative dispute can be instituted.

Location permit validity
The location permit ceases to be valid if the request for issuing the main design confirmation or the building permit is not submitted to the competent administrative authority, or to the Ministry, within two years after the location permit takes effect.
The legal validity of the location permit can be extended once (for a period of two years) on request of the applicant, if there have been no changes to the terms established in accordance with the provisions of this Act and other terms pursuant to which the location permit was issued.

CONSTRUCTION

Construction terms:
1. A staking out survey is a document elaborating the manner the building is staked out on the terrain and the manner the points of the designed building are stabilised.
2. A geodetic situation blueprint of the constructed building's actual condition is a blueprint drawn, in accordance with the regulations on topographic measuring and the cadastre, by a person authorised for the implementation of state measuring and for performing business activities of the real estate cadastre, in accordance with a special act.
3. Construction is the execution of construction works and other works performed to build a new edifice, reconstruct, remove and maintain an existing one.
4. Building reconstruction is the execution of construction works and other works in order for an existent building to meet important requirements, or to change the harmonisation of the existent building with the location provisions in accordance to which it had been constructed.
5. Building maintenance is the execution of construction works and other works in order to preserve crucial requirements of a building during its life span, without changing the harmonisation of the building with the location provisions in accordance to which it had been constructed.
6. Installation is the execution of construction works and other works in order to link construction products, installations, equipment and plants, thus making them a constituent part of the building, not to be separated from it without removal or influence on the crucial building requirements.
7. The removal of a building or one of its parts is the execution of demolition works on site, including the removal of waste found in the building and on the construction plot, as well as the removal of construction material and waste produced in the demolition of the building. Furthermore, it includes setting the construction plot, or land on which the building previously stood, in order.
8. An edifice is a construction connected to the soil, made in the process of construction, purposefully assembled from construction products, containing joint installations and equipment; a construction with a built-in plant or equipment, forming a technical - technological unit, or individual plants connected to the soil; a construction connected to the soil but not made in the process of construction, if such a construction changes the space utilisation mode.
9. A plant is a set of purposefully connected equipment for the implementation of a technological or another process for which the edifice has been intended.
10. A replacement edifice is a new edifice constructed at the site or in the vicinity of the site of a previously removed building within the same plot, and which does not change the purpose, appearance, size and environmental impact of the previous edifice.
11. A building is a closed and/ or roofed edifice designated for housing people, animals, plants and things. A building is an individual building within an infrastructural edifice system.
A building whose construction area is up to 400m2, and a building exclusively designated for agricultural activities whose construction area is up to 600m2, are buildings whose construction gross area includes the areas of all other buildings constructed on the same plot.