O nekim aspektima i implikacijama pravnog statusa odobalnih objekata za istrazivanje i eksploataciju ugljikovodika u Republici Hrvatskoj

The purpose of this paper is to examine and determine the legal status of offshore facilities for exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons according to the Croatian law. The fact imposed the need for provisions to be introduced in order to determine the legal status of those structures. The author points out that exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons from the subsoil can be carried out from the offshore facilities which are, by their technical characteristics, different to the extent that it is questionable whether the same legal regime could be applied to all of them. The purpose of this article is to point out the legal gaps of the current legal framework and to forewarn on possible unexpected and adverse legal effects of filling those legal gaps by subsidiary regulations, not adjusted to specific features of those activities. In order to reduce the current legal uncertainty, legal status of those facilities should be precisely regulated in one place -- which is the Act on Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons.