Security and Intelligence Agency
| Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija | |
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| Formed | August 17, 2006 |
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| Jurisdiction | Croatia |
| Headquarters | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Annual budget | 331.7 million HRK ($48.43 million, 43.09 million €) (2014) |
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The Security and Intelligence Agency (Croatian: Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija or SOA) is the Croatian security and intelligence service founded in 2006 upon the passing of the Security and Intelligence System of the Republic of Croatia Act and by combining the former Counterintelligence Agency (POA), and the Intelligence Agency (OA) which both ceased to operate.
The current Director of SOA that was appointed with the consent of the President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and the Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković is Daniel Markić.
During the 1990s the central body for conducting national security was Office for the Protection of Constitutional Order (Ured za zaštitu ustavnog poretka-UZPU) which was established by the President Franjo Tuđman on May 27, 1991. UZUP was decommissioned on March 21, 1993 when the National Security Office (Ured za nacionalnu sigurnost-UNS) was established by the second President's decision. UNS was put into the legal framework on May 17, 1995 by the enactment of the Law on the National Security Office (Zakon o uredu za nacionalnu sigurnost). Goals and tasks of the intelligence community in Croatia were also determined by the Joint National Security Committee (Stožerni odbor nacionalne sigurnosti-SONS) and the Intelligence Community Coordination Committee (Koordinacijski odbor obavještajne zajednice-KOOZ). The task of SONS was directed and coordinated by the work of government ministries in matters of national security, while KOOZ was responsible for the implementation of tasks received from SONS. The core of the intelligence community consisted of four departments that were involved in intelligence work:
Croatian President was giving guidelines for the work of UNS and the Croatian intelligence community. The director of UNS and state ministers were determining tasks of the services for which they were responsible. KOOZ was preparing the annual plan of the intelligence community which consisted of projects and operative actions in which performance had to be attend by two or more services. SONS was approving the annual work plan of the intelligence community and supervised its execution. Apart from the above-mentioned UNS and other agencies, a wider range of security system consisted of the criminal police, military police, customs service, the financial police, whose representatives could call the session of KOOZ.
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