The Working Group for Hate Crime, a multidisciplinary working group supported by the Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, adopted a new Protocol on Hate Crime. This Protocol aims to ensure better co-ordination between all levels of the criminal justice system (police, prosecutors and judges) for responding to and recording hate crimes.

A new criminal code introducing new provisions on hate crime was adopted by Parliament in October 2011, with an effective date of 1 January 2012. While the previous provisions only included a general definition of hate crime that was applied to convictions for bias-motivated crime, the new provisions specifically cite bias motivation as an aggravating circumstance for all crimes, except for specific crimes that already provide for bias motivation in its aggravated form. Those provisions include murder, female genital mutilation, crimes involving bodily injury, sexual assualt, coercion, threats, inciting riots and public incitement to violence and hatred.

Official figures record 12 crimes based on ethnicity/national origin/minority group.

Croatia reported that it collects data on anti-Semitic crimes.

Croatia collects data on anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Croatia has reported to ODIHR that they collect data on hate crimes based on religious bias.

Official figures record 45 cases of crimes based on bias against LGBT persons.