IV. PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATIONS AND TASKS OF AUTHORIZED ARCHITECTS AND AUTHORIZED CIVIL ENGINEERS

1. Professional orientation and tasks of authorized architects

Article 18

Authorized architect shall be entered into the Register of authorized architects under one of the following professional orientations:
1. Authorized architect
2. Authorized architect – town planner
3. Authorized architect – internal architecture
4. Authorized landscape architect

Article 19

1. Professional orientations of authorized architects shall be determined relative to professional tasks
- architectural – formative, technical and economic designing shall constitute professional tasks of authorized architects. Authorized architects shall have the authority to provide expert services from the scope of all professional architectural orientations.
- devising urban development plans and physical plans (organizing their implementation and planning the surroundings) shall be the professional tasks of authorized architect – town planner.
- Professional tasks of authorized landscape architects shall be planning, designing and decorating of landscape structures inside and outside of inhabited areas, protection and planned and consistent maintenance of landscape, as well as of landscape architecture, based on biotechnical, artistic, economic and ecological ideas and acts.
2. Professional tasks of authorized architects, authorized architects – town planners, authorized architects of internal architecture and authorized landscape architects from paragraph 1 of this article shall include:
1) devising urban development plans and physical plans, developing conceptual designs, conceptual projects, program sketch drawings, main projects and detailed designs,
2) drawing up design and building programs, monitoring their implementation,
3) consulting and representing investors and their interests when it comes to: planning, designing, choosing contractors, coordinating, contracting works, organizing and executing projects,
4) planning, coordinating and organizing the building process,
5) supervising building, settling accounts and taking over executed work,
6) execution of expert measurements and tests,
7) monitoring buildings and facilities when operating,
8) drawing up opinions, studies, evaluations and budgets, expert documentation control,
9) drawing up list of expenses including measurements, supervision of execution and calculation of the value of executed jobs, conducted in accordance with those documents,
10) Professional tasks of authorized architects and authorized landscape architects shall also include taking an active part in landscape planning, urban development, regional planning and environmental protection.

3. Professional tasks shall include jobs from the Rulebook on the price of services of the Croatian Chamber of architects and civil engineers.
4. Professional tasks shall correspond to the definition and classification labels of the Rulebook on determining scientific domains (Official gazette of the Republic of Croatia, no. 29/97) – for branches 2.01.01-2.01.05 of field 2.01 Architecture and urbanism, within Technical sciences domain. Professional tasks of landscape architects correspond to labels for branch 4.01.05, of field 4.01. Agronomy, within Biotechnical sciences domain.
2. Professional orientations and tasks of authorized civil engineers

Article 20

Authorized civil engineer shall be entered into a Register of authorized civil engineers under one of the following professional orientations:
1. Authorized civil engineer-geotechnician
2. Authorized civil engineer-constructor
3. Authorized civil engineer for organizing building
4. Authorized civil engineer for roads
5. Authorized civil engineer for hydraulic engineering

Article 21

1. Professional tasks of authorized civil engineers relative to their professional orientation, for each technical domain are:
1) Formative, technical and economic design of buildings and their construction parts
2) Development of programs, studies, plans and projects
3) consulting and representing investors and their interests when it comes to: planning, designing, choosing contractors, coordinating, contracting works, organizing and executing projects,
4) planning, coordinating and organizing the building process
5) supervising building
6) calculating the value of and taking over executed works
7) execution of expert measurements and tests,
8) monitoring buildings and facilities when operating
9) expert project control
10) drawing up list of expenses including measurements, supervision of execution and calculation of the value of executed jobs, conducted in accordance with those documents.
2. Authorized civil engineers shall have the authority to execute jobs relating to one or more professional orientations.
3. Professional orientations and tasks of authorized geodesy engineers

Article 22

1. Authorized geodesy engineers shall be entered into the Register of authorized geodesy engineers. Register of authorized geodesy engineers shall cover only one professional orientation.

2. Professional tasks of geodesy engineers shall include:
1) establishing the size and shape of land and measuring all data required for defining size, position, form and shape of any of its parts
2) positioning objects in space, as well as positioning and monitoring physical traits, structures and construction works conducted on the land, above or beneath its surface
3) establishing the position of boundaries between private and public land, including intra-state and international borders and registration of land in appropriate registers
4) shaping, establishing and managing land and geographical data systems, as well as gathering, storing, analyzing and managing data from such systems
5) geodesic study of natural and social environment, measuring land and marine resources, using such data to plan and develop urban, rural and regional areas
6) geodesic planning, development and change of ownership, of either the urban or the rural, land or buildings
7) geodesic evaluation of property and management, of either the urban or the rural, land or buildings
8) Geodesic planning, measuring and management of geodesic activities at construction sites, including cost evaluation, drawing up lists of expenses, organizing and executing geodesic work.
9) Drawing up plans, maps, data banks, graphs and reports.

3. Professional tasks of authorized geodesic engineers shall include:
1) Designing and placing geodesic base points and determining their position and height by terrestrial and satellite methods
2) Topographic land measurements conducted by means of photographic measurement, terrestrial and satellite methods, including drawing up plans and maps for the purposes of physical planning, environmental protection and building design
3) detailed measurement of user and owner relations on the land, for the purposes of cadastral books and land registry by means of photographic measurement, terrestrial and satellite methods
4) Geodetic measurement, including drawing up documentation required for execution of agrarian operations, ordering and expropriation of land
5) Transfer of project, in the sense of position, to the field, on the basis of compiled project documentation and drawing up staking out report
6) Supervision and monitoring of positional characteristics of architectural and other objects, i.e. their parts during the building process, as to ensure their correspondence with project documentation, drawing up reports for entry into official registers
7) Geodesic measurement of actual state following the end of construction of objects, i.e. their parts and drawing up reports for entry into official registers
8) Geodesic measurement of underground and above-ground installations and power lines, drawing up adequate technical documentation for entry into official registers
9) Controlling (in the sense of position) the influence of buildings on space and the change in their positional characteristics occurring during exploitation (deformations and shifts), for the purposes of building maintenance
10) Drawing up general topographic and theme maps to be used as basis for developing projects
11) Drawing up technical documentation for preservation and renewal of objects of cultural and architectural heritage
12) Taking part in team work relating to projects for construction of water management basis and finding ecological and water-preservation solutions
13) Establishment and installation of digital (topographic and theme) databases
14) Consulting and designing services, as well as expert evaluation of geodesic activities
15) Organizing courses, seminars and supervising work made in geodesic management.

4. Professional orientation and tasks of authorized mechanical engineers

Article 23

1. Authorized mechanical engineer shall be entered under one of the following headings in the Register of authorized mechanical engineers:
1) authorized mechanical engineer for thermo-electric plants
2) authorized mechanical engineer for storing and transfer of gaseous and liquid matter
3) authorized mechanical engineer for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, cooling appliances and water preparation and processing
4) authorized mechanical engineer for processing and other plants.

2. Marine architects, mining engineers and chemical technology engineers actually performing professional tasks from Article 24 can be entered under one of professional orientations in the Register of authorized engineers.

Article 24

Professional tasks of authorized mechanical engineers, relative to their professional orientation, for each technical domain are:
1) technical, technological and economic design of engines and parts of building systems
2) drawing up studies, programs and projects
3) supervising execution
4) making technical tests and measurements
5) control of systems during use
6) expert documentation control

5. Professional orientation and tasks of authorized electrical engineers

Article 25

Authorized electrical engineer shall be entered under one of professional orientations in the Register of authorized electrical engineers:
1) authorized electrical engineers
2) authorized electrical engineers for electro-energetics
3) authorized electrical engineers for information and telecommunications technology

Article 26

Professional tasks of authorized electrical engineers, relative to their professional orientation, for each technical domain are:
1) technical, technological and economic design of electro-technical, lighting and protective systems during construction
2) consulting and representing investors and their interests when it comes to planning, designing, choice of equipment and contractor, as well as project organization and implementation
3) drawing up studies, programs and projects, opinions, evaluations and calculations
4) supervising execution, calculation and takeover of executed works
5) conducted technical tests and measurements
6) control of electro-technical systems during use
7) expert documentation control and formal recognition of documentation.

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