According to the NSDI Act, Article 7 states: “(2) This Act does not oblige the collection of new spatial data.”
The INSPIRE Directive, which has been transposed into Croatian legislation by the NSDI Act, refers to existing data, and, as stated, does not oblige to the collection of new spatial data. However, if new sources of spatial data are developed within the NSDI framework, they are subject to INSPIRE Directive and the NSDI Act.