Zagreb , 21/07/2010

The process of switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting of television programmes has been so far successfully completed in a total of seven digital regions, sixteen Croatian counties. Today, 854.172 out of a total of 1 477 377 households, that is 58%, in the Republic of Croatia are successfully digitalised. These are results of digital swithcover public policy of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

The implementation of the Strategy is entrusted to a team of institutions: the Central State Administrative Office for e-Croatia, Ministry of Culture, Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Agency for Electronic Media, network operator Odašiljači i veze d.o.o. and the Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure. Furthermore, the Government has nominated the Central State Administrative Office for e-Croatia to be the coordinator of all activities within this Strategy as well as the coordinator of the awareness rising campaign.

  

The implementation of the Strategy is a complex work, particularly since it is a multiannual project of the Croatian Government encompassing planning, supervision and application of digital television system, financing, informing the public, distribution of vouchers and finally purchase of digital receivers. However, achieved results have proved readiness and effectiveness of each instituion for the implementation of this national project.

  

''Digital swithcover is progressing well and in accordance with the Strategy for transfer from analogue to digital broadcasting of television programmes which foresees the beginning of broadcasting of the digital television signal on the entire territory of the Republic of Croatia by 1 January 2011. Having in mind current pace of this process, there is no doubt that Croatia in just a few months will be among the countries which have switched to digital broadcasting'', stated Igor Lučić, the State Secretary of the Central State Administrative Office for e-Croatia, the instituion in charge for the overall coordination of the digitalisation process.