Croatian passport, by Wikipedia / CC BY SA 3.0

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Croatian passport (Croatian: Hrvatska putovnica) is issued to citizens of the Republic of Croatia for the purpose of international travel.
The passport has the purpose of serving as proof of Croatian citizenship and identity.
Responsibility for their issuance lies with the Ministry of the Interior; and for citizens abroad, passports are issued by the local embassy or consulate.
Croatian passports are valid for ten or five years, and are not renewable.
Every Croatian citizen is also a citizen of the European Union.
The passport, along with the national identity card allows for free rights of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Croatia started issuing biometric passports on 1 July 2009.
Croatian passports are dark blue, with the Croatian coat of arms emblazoned in the centre of the front cover.
The words Europska Unija and Republika Hrvatska are inscribed above the coat of arms, with the word Putovnica and the international biometric passport symbol () below.
The passport contains 34 pages.
The third generation Croatian passport has been changed in design due to the recent accession into the European Union.
From 3 August 2015, the new Croatian passport retained its dark blue cover and is the odd one out among the 27 European Union member states’ passports and the words Europska Unija (European Union in Croatian) have been printed on it as per EU regulations.
Additionally, the new cover is only in Croatian; the English and French have been removed.
The data page/information page is printed in Croatian, English and French.
From 2009, each biometric passport has a data page and a residence page.
A data page has a visual zone and a machine-readable zone.
The visual zone has a digitised photograph of the passport holder, …

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