As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 21st of October, 2020, this past weekend, Civil Protection inspectors fined five Croatian clubs in the City of Zagreb in the total amount of 150,000 kuna.
One such club was fined 30,000 kuna for exceeding working hours, and the other four were fined the same penalty for having a crowded dance floor, non-compliance with maintaining social distancing between guests and a lack of information at the entrance about the number of guests permitted within the club, Jutarnji list writes.
The possibility of punishing legal entities was announced last Monday by the director of the Croatian Institute of Public Health, Krunoslav Capak. The inspection can impose a fine of 20 to as much as 70 thousand kuna on each legal entity, ie the owner of the premises who fails to comply with the current epidemiological measures and instructions.
As of it now seems, inspectors only fine more serious offenses such as exceeding working hours until midnight, not maintaining social distancing and so-called “irresponsible” dancing. In addition, the total number of guests in the premises must be displayed at the entrance, and is determined by the criterion of four square metres per person.
Mladen Vlaic, head of the Sector for Administrative and Inspection Affairs of PUZ, says that all of the fines written this weekend for the five Croatian clubs punished were in the lowest possible amount.
“The minimum fine under the Civil Protection System Act is 20,000 kuna for a legal entity, and 10,000 kuna for a responsible person in a legal entity. The owners of the Croatian clubs who received a misdemeanor warrant have the opportunity to appeal, and then the court decides on that,” explained Vlaic, adding that all of the inspected clubs this weekend respected the appointment and arrival of the ”covid guards”.
Last week, more than 2,300 inspections of restaurants, nightclubs, weddings and events were carried out across Croatia, and 259 verbal warnings were issued. The most relaxed were in Split and Osijek. In Osijek, an irregularity was found during every fifth inspection, and in Split during every third. But no fines were written.
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