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See e.g. Art. 8.2.1 of the copyright law of Croatia : "official texts in the domain of legislation, administration, judiciary (acts, regulations, decisions, reports, minutes, judgments, standards, and the like) and other official works and their collections, which are published for the purpose of officially informing the public".

This template must not be used on its own. To establish PD status it must be used only with an appropriate license template such as {{PD-Croatia-exempt}}. You must make sure the file content has been declared as public domain by the laws of the relevant successor state.

This image is in the public domain because according to the Copyright Law of Serbia and Montenegro ("Службени гласник СЦГ", бр. 61/2004), "Work is not copyrighted if the work is:

1. Law, sub-law act or other kind of law act.
2. Official materials of state authorities or materials published by any other person or institution which do public function.
3. Official translations of materials of state authorities or translation of materials published by any other person or institution which do public function.
4. Any of acts in judgment processes."

A source should be included so that the status can be verified. This federal law applies for both republics, Serbia and Montenegro, as long as they do not adopt own inherent laws.

This work is not an object of copyright according to the of the Republic of Croatia.

Article 8.

1. The subject matter of copyright shall include expressions and not ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such.
2. The subject matter of copyright shall not include:

   (1) discoveries, official texts in the domain of legislation, administration, judiciary (acts, regulations, decisions, reports, minutes, judgments, standards, and the like) and other official works and their collections, disclosed for the purpose of officially informing the public;

   (2) news of the day and other news, having the character of mere items of press information;

3. Folk literary and artistic creations in their original form shall not be the subject matter of copyright, but their communication to the public is subject to the payment of remuneration, as for the communication to the public of protected copyright works. The remuneration shall be the revenue of the budget, and shall be used for improving the creativity in the field concerned.

Note:

Translations of official texts in the domain of legislation, administration and judiciary, shall be protected, unless made for the purpose of officially informing the public and are disclosed as such.