The EU has had and still has some influence on the development of public administration in the Republic of Croatia and some progressisvisible, but it is still not enough and much more work, political wil land determination is needed. Croatian public administration continues to lag behind inimplementing reforms. There is strong resistance to change and modernization of the administration in the higher professional strata, which is reflected in the delay of reforms and there jection of innovations in procedures. Administrative changes are taking place with constant conflicts according to the principle sof those who advocate the radical minimization of the role of the state and those who want to preserve the traditional model of Croatian administration as a pillar of state continuity. Croatia has created a centralized, hierarchical system under tight control and in the service of politics at all administrative level that needs to be changed. The current administrative changes in Croatia concern five mainissues: decentralization and democratization, creation of a transparent and open public administration, introduction of a development system and human resources management, modernization of the administration and experimentation with elements of public management. This final paper presents the conditions that the EU has set for Croatia inorder to become a full member, there forms, iethe meures that Croatia has implemented and what still needs to bedoneinorder to modernize and improve public administration. Public administration in every respects hould serve the public interestand enjoy the trust of the community, which for Croatia means that it must be focused primarily on key public issues, accountable to citizensand must actina ccordance with the law. Special attention should be paid to the implementation of reforms that are inter connected and interfering with each other and can be roughly viewed from three perspectives: functional, structural-organization aland personal. Instead of the needs of the government and the state administrative mechanism itself, thecitizens and their needs in the community should be put in the foreground. Instead of a hierarchical concept of governance, it is necessary to establish a horizontal concep to fgovernance and participatory public governance. Croatia still has a lot of work to do to bring public administrationin line with European standards.