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 The front cover of a contemporary Croatian biometric passport. | |
 The data page of a contemporary Croatian biometric passport | |
| Type | Passport |
| Issued by |  Croatia |
| First issued | 26 June 1991 (first version) 29 June 2009[1] (biometric passport) 3 August 2015[2] (current version; first EU version) |
| Purpose | Identification |
| Eligibility | Croatian citizenship |
| Expiration | 10 or 5 years after acquisition |
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Croatian passport (Croatian: Hrvatska putovnica) is issued to citizens of the Republic of Croatia for the purpose of international travel. The passport has the purpose of serving as proof of Croatian citizenship and identity. Responsibility for their issuance lies with the Ministry of the Interior; and for citizens abroad, passports are issued by the local embassy or consulate. Croatian passports are valid for ten or five years, and are not renewable. Every Croatian citizen is also a citizen of the European Union. The passport, along with the national identity card allows for free rights of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Croatia started issuing biometric passports on 1 July 2009.
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- ^ "Passport - mup.gov.hr". mup.hr. Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 7 January 2023.