Croatia made some progress in improving the pre-insolvency and insolvency framework for corporate entities.

Obstacles to cross border capital flows include issues such as insolvency, corporate, taxation and securities laws, where further analysis and feedback is needed to identify the scale of the challenge in each area, and the appropriate solutions and degree of prioritisation.

This shall accompany the preparation of legislation on the basis of a comprehensive reform framework establishing appropriate corporate and personal insolvency procedures, as well as ensuring the smooth and effective functioning of the revised foreclosure and insolvency frameworks.

As a result, Implementing Decision 2013/463/EU should be updated in the areas of financial sector reform, fiscal policy and structural reforms, in particular with regard to (i) the design of a communication strategy by a joint Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) and Ministry of Finance task force on the roadmap for the relaxation of the capital controls and on the implementation of the banking sector strategy; (ii) the timely reporting of banks’ estimates of the potential impact of the newly introduced and upcoming Union rules on capital requirements and non-performing loans (NPLs) on capital, profitability and coverage ratio; (iii) the establishment of a task force to assess the magnitude of registered but untitled land sales contracts, and to ...[+++]provide recommendations on this issue; (iv) the reform of corporate and personal insolvency procedures; (v) the review of the Civil Procedure Code and Court Rules to ensure a smooth and effective functioning of the revised foreclosure and insolvency frameworks; (vi) a revision of the primary deficit target for 2014 to 1,8 % of GDP; (vii) the implementation of a first stage of the National Health System (NHS), having first defined and adopted a full roadmap to NHS; (viii) the revision of policies on pricing and reimbursement of medical goods and services, including those related to pharmaceutical expenditure; (ix) the establishment of a Privatisation Unit; (x) the presentation of an action plan for addressing the shortcoming identified in Phase 2 of the peer review by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes; (xi) the development of a growth strategy based on Cyprus’ competitive advantages to help the Cypriot authorities to kick-starting the economy.

In case of insolvency of the debtor, the recoverable balances may cease to be considered at risk after approval by a court of law in the respective agreement under the Code of Insolvency and Corporate Recovery (Código de Insolvência e Recuperação de Empresas), if no doubts persist about the effective collectability of the amounts due.

Several Member States are currently undertaking reviews of their national insolvency laws with a view to improving the corporate rescue framework and the second chance for entrepreneurs.