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Osobna iskaznica, Putovnica, Vozačka dozvola on one session — EU Reg. 2019/1157 + ICAO 9303 + HNB-aligned, Schengen zone since 2023. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Croatia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Croatian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the post-Schengen fintech onboarding wave, document forgery on the Osobna iskaznica and legacy Putovnica, and cross-border mule networks exploiting Schengen freedom of movement via Croatian payment corridors to the Balkans. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Zakon o sprječavanju pranja novca i financiranja terorizma (NN 108/17)
  • AMLD6 (EU Directive 2018/843)
  • GDPR (Regulation 2016/679)
  • EU Regulation 2019/1157 (national identity cards)
  • MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation)
  • Payment Services Act (Zakon o platnom prometu)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Croatia.

These are the supervisors a Croatia verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • HNB

    Hrvatska narodna banka (Croatian National Bank) — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Primary AML supervisor under the Zakon o sprječavanju pranja novca i financiranja terorizma (NN 108/17).

  • HANFA

    Hrvatska agencija za nadzor financijskih usluga — supervises capital-markets firms, insurers, pension funds, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

  • UAML

    Ured za sprječavanje pranja novca (Croatian Financial Intelligence Unit) — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under the AML/CFT Act (NN 108/17) and coordinates with Europol and MONEYVAL.

  • AZOP

    Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka — Croatian supervisory authority for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / Regulation 2016/679). Governs every identity verification on Croatian residents.

  • Porezna uprava

    Croatian Tax Administration — issues and manages the OIB (Osobni identifikacijski broj) tax-identification number referenced in KYB onboarding and treasury compliance flows.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Croatia database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • the chip-enabled Osobna iskaznica (under EU Regulation 2019/1157), Putovnica (with the NFC chip read on e-Passports), Vozačka dozvola, and Dozvola boravka for non-EU residents.
  • Returns the name, OIB (where encoded), date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Osobna iskaznica (chip) · Putovnica
  • Vozačka dozvola · Dozvola boravka
  • EU/EEA national IDs
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Croatian watchlists:

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia — PEP Level 1 designated officials.
  • Dubrovnik City Government — PEP Level 4 local-government register.
  • Državno odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske (State Attorney's Office) — Special Interest Persons (SIP) in active proceedings.
  • Dubrovački — Naslovnica — SIP adverse-media signals.
  • Agency for the Protection of Market Competition (HAKOM) — regulatory warning designations.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — applies under EU enforcement in Croatia.
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations applied under EU overlap.
  • MONEYVAL (Council of Europe) — mutual evaluation and high-risk country findings.
  • Europol — organised crime and terrorist organisation designations.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global terrorism and proliferation designations.
  • FATF 40 Recommendations — high-risk and monitored jurisdiction register.
  • Basel AML Index — country-risk composite signals.
  • Council of Europe GRECO — anti-corruption and political integrity register.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • Croatia does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators — the Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova national identity registry and the OIB system do not publish a standalone database-validation endpoint for commercial use.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Croatia document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Croatia.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Croatia.

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