The modernization of public administration in Croatia must provide effective law enforcement and to create a transparent, customer-oriented, efficient, professional, effective and efficient public administration. Such public administration is an integral part of an effective business environment, the lever of social and economic development and stronghold of the democratic process. Numerous measures to be implemented are often interrelated and mutually interfere, but can generally be viewed from three aspects, namely: the aspect of organizational structural, functional aspect, and personal aspect. Public administration in Croatia has the characteristics of state administration-strictly centralized, bureaucratic government unrelated with the citizens and entrepreneurs. Croatian modernizing reforms of the public administration has begun. Reflected in the adoption of the Public Administration Reform Strategy, decentralization, promoting local and regional development, changes in the state administration (preparation of a new law on general administrative procedure, the project of functional review and preparation of the law on salaries of civil servants) and in efforts to establish a holistic system of administrative education. They adopted a strategy of development of public administration 2014th-2020th document that sets long-term goals and guidelines for the modernization of public administration in the Republic of Croatia.