Ritual slaughter
Ritual slaughter
Slaughter is regulated in Croatia by the European Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing (Official Journal of the European Union, L 303, 18.11.2009), which became a part of the Law on Animal Protection in 2013 (Narodne novine 37/2013, in Croatian), just a few months before Croatia became an EU member.
This law was modified in 2017. According to the Law on Animal Protection from 2017 (Narodne novine 102/2017, 32/2019, in Croatian), derogation of stunning in case of religious slaughter taking place in slaughterhouses is allowed in accordance with the EU regulation.
3 June 2019See also the 2018 current debate "Why religious slaughter is (still) not an issue in Croatia?".