Since Croatia joined the European Union on July 1, Croatian police at 31 border crossings moved to the Slovenian side because Slovenian border crossings are equipped with the Schengen information base and Croatian ones are not.
Despite numerous appeals, Croatia has still not given its consent to the draft agreement on how to regulate the payment of operating costs at the border crossings where joint control is performed, STA quoted the Slovenian police public relations department as saying.
The Slovenian draft agreement envisages the payment of a flat amount per square metre of the premises used by Croatian police, including utilities.
Slovenian police have prepared a project to draw EUR 24,000 from EU funds for the execution of joint border control and the Justice Ministry has spent EUR 110,000 to refurbish the border crossings in question, of which 75% was provided by the EU, STA said.