The draft strategy is currently open for public discussion, which is to be concluded on 17 April.
According to the document, which includes data from Eurostat, although it is a relatively small country, Croatia has one of the highest government-owned property and assets rates in Europe, being the fifth in the rankings after Norway, Finland, Iceland and Sweden.
However, Norway, rich in crude oil, earns 11% of its GDP annually from state-owned property, Sweden and Finland earn 4%, while Croatia obtains only 0.7% of its GDP, or 300 million euros annually, from state-owned assets.
Therefore, the proposed strategy recommends the introduction of an integral model of managing such assets in Croatia to make better use of the government-owned property.
According to the draft, the government had an interest in a total of 631 companies in mid-March 2013, and the government's share in 555 of them was up to 49.99%, while the state interest in 61 companies was above 50% of those companies' capital, and there were 15 non-operating companies.