Those figures were presented in the northern Adriatic resort of Opatija on Thursday by the vice president of the Croatian Constitutional Court, Jasna Omejec, at a seminar on current issues in criminal legislation.
Between January 1 and May 3 this year, the European Court handed down another 12 sentences against Croatia establishing violations of the Convention's article on unreasonably long court proceedings and of the peaceful right to enjoy possessions.
Most of the lawsuits the Court accepted were related to the 1991-95 war, particularly damage committed through acts of terrorism or violations of human rights of Croatian soldiers and police, non-execution of national courts' sentences, unreasonably long trials, and the restitution of property and tenancy rights, said Omejec.
She said the European Court was currently dealing with a number of cases against Croatia with regard to criminal matters.
Omejec said this year saw the tenth anniversary of the Convention's application in Croatia.
She said domestic courts and other state and local authority bodies accepted the indirect application of the Convention very rarely and with great difficulty. If courts applied the Convention as the European Court does, applying the same criteria and referring to its sentences more frequently, that would constitute an important headway in the protection of human rights in Croatia, she said.
The Opatija event was organised by Engineering Bureau Ltd in cooperation with the Croatian Supreme Court.