Cash entering or leaving the Union

Cash entering or leaving the Union (new rules as of 3 June 2021)

Any natural person may enter and leave the Union carrying any amount of cash in any currency freely and without restrictions as regards the amount, provided that they have declared the amount to a customs officer.
The following is considered cash: cash money – banknotes and coins that are in circulation as a means of payment or that were in circulation as a means of payment and can still be exchanged through financial institutions or central banks; other means of payment – such as cheques, traveller’s cheques, promissory notes or money orders with the payee’s name omitted, as well as, starting with 3 June 2021, coins with a gold content of at least 90% and bars, nuggets or clumps with a gold content of at least 99.5%.

Cash transfers in passenger transport

Any natural person entering or leaving the EU carrying cash on their person, in their luggage or in their means of transport in the amount of EUR 10,000.00 or more, or in the equivalent of this amount in other currencies, must declare this to the customs officer at the border customs office.
  
The Cash Declaration Form is used for this purpose – it can be filled out electronically and e-mailed to operativno@carina.hr, or printed out and handed over to the customs officer at the border customs office. The Cash Declaration Form can also be filled out at the border customs office. If there is insufficient space in the declaration form, an additional sheet can be used, and it will be considered an integral part thereof. The form may be filled out in Croatian or in English. 

Sending cash in postal, courier or cargo shipments 

For cash being sent in postal, courier or cargo shipments, in an amount of EUR 10,000.00 or more, the customs officer may require the sender or the recipient, or a representative thereof, to submit a cash declaration (for the so-called unaccompanied cash). If so required by the customs officer, the sender, the recipient or a representative thereof must fill out the Cash Disclosure Declaration Form electronically and deliver it to the customs officer at the customs office or the border customs office within 30 days from the receipt the request.
 
The Cash Disclosure Declaration Form can be filled out electronically and e-mailed to operativno@carina.hr, or printed out and handed over to the customs officer at the border customs office or another customs office. The Cash Disclosure Declaration Form can also be filled out at the border customs office. If there is insufficient space in the declaration form, an additional sheet can be used, and it will be considered an integral part thereof. The form may be filled out in Croatian or in English.

Cash entering the Republic of Croatia or leaving the Republic of Croatia and entering another Member State

The Foreign Exchange Act (Official Gazette No. 96/03-52/2021) also introduces national controls on movements of cash entering the Republic of Croatia from another Member State or leaving the Republic of Croatia and entering another Member State, and authorises the Customs Administration and Ministry of the Interior to perform national controls on movements of cash.
At the request of an authorised customs officer or border police officer, natural persons carrying cash in the amount of EUR 10,000.00 or more are obliged to declare that cash in a written form using the Cash Declaration Form in accordance with Article 40.a of the Act when they are entering the Republic of Croatia from another Members State or leaving the Republic of Croatia and entering another Member State, or when they entered the Republic of Croatia from another Member State. If there is insufficient space in the declaration form, an additional sheet can be used, and it will be considered an integral part thereof. The form may be filled out in Croatian or in English.
 
At the request from an authorised customs officer or border police officer, the natural person must personally fill out the Cash Declaration Form in accordance with Article 40.a of the Foreign Exchange Act.
 
Information on the rights of persons with regard to personal data protection can be found in the personal data protection statement, available here. 
  
The forms are available at the Customs Administration website.