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The aim and purpose of organizing the economic interest association is to facilitate and promote the activities of business units and to improve and increase their business performance and functioning The authors of this scientific work have carried out research into business operations of the Croatian County Port Authorities pointing at certain deficiencies in their business operations. In order to eliminate the perceived weaknesses and improve the management of the County Port Authorities, a detailed analysis of the possibilities of implementing economic interest associations into the Croatian port system has also been carried out. At the same time, and based on the results obtained, in this research, steps, measures and activities of the newly established Port Authorities economic interest units or associations at the county and national level, are defined, namely through changes in the environment and in business activities of the Port Authorities. Within the scope of this research and resulting from scientific theories and postulates as well as from worldwide experience, discussions have been carried on not only on the already implemented organizational solutions, but on the possible models of the Port Authorities economic interest associations that could be applied to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike the strategic development on a micro level, strategic management on the macro level gets its final form within the period of 10 to 30 years. It was not until recently that strategic documents of the Croatian economy occurred in a larger number. If taken into consideration as documents important for a systematic, national and market-oriented development, and not just as a mere administrative need, development strategies demand the support of all elements of a national development concept. A successful harmonization of the elements of development is a result of a good approach to the issue of forming a strategic development model of a national economy. Within the system of harmonized elements of a strategic development on the macro level, the system lex specialis of the law which regulates nautical tourism is of utter importance. Therefore, changes in a macro development strategy, leading to the changes of strategic goals, require appropriate changes in supporting legislation. This research will take into consideration the following issues: * Does legislation follow the strategic development objectives, or it precedes and indicates the necessary changes? * Do the changes of regulations regarding ports and ships support the strategic development of yachting in Croatia, or do they slow it down? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]