Representatives of several nongovernmental organisations and environmental activists on Thursday filed with the Constitutional Court a motion to assess whether the latest amendments to the golf course legislation are in line with the Constitution, demanding their immediate revocation.
Speaking to reporters in front of the Constitutional Court, the activists said the new law on building golf courses was in contravention of 11 articles of the Constitution.
They said that the law increased legal insecurity for possible investors in Croatia.
The president of Transparency International Croatia, Zorislav Antun Petrovic, said the law also "creates space for corruption".
He said that investors in golf courses were preferred to other enterprisers and builders.
Jagoda Munic of the Zelena Akcija environmental protection association said the law undermined social justice and inviolability of ownership.
The law provides for the expropriation of privately-owned land, she said.
The activists also hold that the required procedure was not respected in the passage of this law in June.
