SUMMARY

1. Introduction - 2. The special care of the Croatian legislator for the confessional factor considered in itself and in relation to the protection of national minorities - 3. The Constitutions of 1990 and 2001: from the transition to the institutional consolidation of the rights of freedom and of the users (associations) - 4. «Post-federation» reformist legislation largely inspired by the European model: a) Laws on property; b) Organizational laws (foundations and associations); c) Laws on the religious phenomenon; d) Laws on social and educational «services»; e) Laws for the protection of minorities - 5. The favor iuris dictated by national cultural traditions in ecclesiastical policy towards the Croatian Catholic Church. From the framework agreements to the disciplinary process for application agreements: a) teaching of the Catholic religion in schools; b) freedom of spiritual assistance; c) charitable and welfare activities; d) freedom in the use of the mass media - 6. Religious denominations other than the Catholic: an open and dialoguing approach to ecclesiastical politics - 7. Freedom of organizational nomopoiesis in the Statutes of religious denominations. Summary - 8. Tradition and innovation of Croatian family law in the reformist dynamics of the Yugoslav legal system. The confessional legislation and the Family Act 1998 and 2003 - 9. The political-legislative integration of Croatia in the European and international context. Conclusions.