Running a country's private forests on one digital system
Logging permits, subsidised reforestation, timber transport and damage claims for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
2015
Multi-year programme
Public Sector / Forestry
Starting position
Starting position
- None
Digital system for logging permits (doznaka)
Permits issued and tracked manually, office by office
- None
Digital tracking for subsidised reforestation (uzgoj) works
Technical elaborates, financing and payouts processed entirely on paper
- None
Digital timber transport documentation
Waybills issued manually per shipment
- Manual, per case
Forest damage-claim processing
Claims assessed and calculated by hand at each regional office
Market size
Hundreds of thousands of private forest parcels across Croatia, administered through regional forestry offices
Private forest parcels administered through the platform
Approx. budget
200,000 – 999,999 €
Budget breakdown
Budget bucket per Clutch.co project cost category. Exact figures under NDA.
Multi-phase delivery
Multi-year programme
- 1
Phase 1
Discovery and data model across permits, silviculture, transport and damage-claim domains
- 2
Phase 2
Logging permit (doznaka) module and cadastral parcel editor
- 3
Phase 3
Subsidised silviculture (uzgoj) module: elaborates, financing, payouts, inspections
- 4
Phase 4
Timber transport, damage claims, legacy data migration and rollout to regional offices
A nationwide forestry administration running entirely on paper
Croatia's private forest sector runs through regional forestry offices that issue logging permits, approve and fund reforestation work, document timber transport, and assess storm and game damage claims, all under national forestry law. Before this platform, every one of those processes ran on paper, office by office, with nothing connecting a permit, its funded silviculture work, or its transport documents to the same forest parcel.
No shared digital record tying a logging permit, its transport documents and its silviculture obligations to the same forest parcel
Subsidised reforestation work - elaborates, financing, payouts, completion inspections - tracked entirely on paper
Damage claims assessed and calculated by hand, case by case, at each regional office
Years of legacy records held in per-office files and legacy databases, with no path to consolidate them
One national system covering the full lifecycle of a forest parcel
We built a ministry-wide platform structured around Croatia's own forestry administration model: logging permits, subsidised silviculture, timber transport and damage claims all tied to the same cadastral forest parcel, with a dedicated workflow for every regional forestry office.
Logging permit (doznaka) lifecycle
From application and allocation through permit issuance, contractor assignment and transport documentation, all tracked per parcel and co-owner.
Subsidised silviculture (uzgoj) workflow
Technical elaborates, financing approval, work prescriptions, completion inspections and payouts run through one connected workflow, covering programmes like coastal pine reforestation.
Timber transport documentation
Digital waybills and shipment accounting replace manually issued paper transport documents.
Damage-claim processing
Forest damage claims and settlement calculations are processed through a dedicated module instead of by hand.
Cadastral parcel editor
A dedicated parcel editor keeps every module tied to the correct forest parcel, county, municipality and forest management unit.
Legacy data migration
Dedicated import tooling brings years of legacy office records into the new system without losing history.
How forestry administration changed nationally
Four separate paper processes across every regional office became one connected digital workflow tied to the forest parcel itself.
Logging permits
Before
Paper-based, per office
After
Digital, tied to the forest parcel
Every permit, transport document and silviculture obligation connects to the same parcel record.
Subsidised silviculture
Before
Paper elaborates, financing and payouts
After
One connected digital workflow
Financing, inspections and payouts move through a single tracked process.
Timber transport
Before
Manually issued waybills
After
Digital transport documentation
Shipments are documented and accounted for digitally, per parcel.
Historical records
Before
Fragmented across regional offices
After
Migrated into one national system
Decades of forestry records become queryable in one place.
A national administrative process, digitised end to end
National scale, one system
a single platform replacing office-by-office paper processes across the country
Administrative capacity reclaimed across regional offices
estimated staff time reclaimed from manual permit, transport and payout processing
200,000 – 999,999 €
Payback period
Realised over the programme's multi-year rollout across regional offices
Method
Comparison of manual, per-office administrative processes before vs. the connected digital workflow after
Confidence
Medium - based on process comparison, not an audited financial report
This is a national public-sector platform - impact is measured in administrative reach and process consolidation, not commercial revenue. Exact figures are the Ministry's to disclose.
A national forestry administration running on one connected system
The platform is in production use across the Ministry's regional forestry offices. Live operational figures belong to the Ministry; the figures below describe what changed structurally.
Permits, transport and silviculture tied to a single parcel record
Before
Disconnected paper files
After
One connected digital record per parcel
In production
Subsidised silviculture workflow
Before
Paper, per office
After
Elaborate → financing → inspection → payout, digital
Since rollout
Timber transport documentation
Before
Manually issued waybills
After
Digital, per shipment
Since rollout
Regional forestry offices on one shared system
Before
Independent, paper-based offices
After
Connected via one national platform
Nationwide
“Before this system, a logging permit, its transport documents and the silviculture funding tied to the same parcel lived in three different paper trails, sometimes across three different offices. Now they're the same record.”
Digital Systems Coordinator
Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i ribarstva
