X TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 84

In exchanging documents and data, and communicating with the users, the HR-DNS service, when possible depending on the legal and technical assumptions, gives priority to communication via computer network, and electronic forms of documents and data.

Article 85

All the official information related to the management of HR domain are made public at the address: URL: http://www.dns.hr/ The domain dns.hr is also used as a directory for other forms of electronic communication with the domain users, registered according to the provisions of these Regulations, as well as for communication with the third parties regarding issues about the HR domain. For reasons of international compatibility and identity of the HR domain management system, as the Croatian national domain, identical official information is available at addresses www.nic.hr and www.domainregistry.hr.

Article 86

The Board and the HR-DNS service have to follow the situation and tendencies in the world related to the organisation and management of the domain space, especially regarding the activities and decisions made by ICANN, and considering this knowledge as well as the situation and the needs in the Republic of Croatia, has to propose necessary modifications and permanently provide professional and efficient management of the HR domain.

Article 87

These Regulations become effective on 1 February 2001.

Article 88

On the day these Regulations become effective, the Regulations on the registration of secondary domains within the top-level hr domain of 15 July 1998 cease to be valid. All the Decisions on granting secondary domains within the top-level hr domain, issued before the date when these Regulations become effective, continue to be valid and have the same force as decisions issued in compliance with these Regulations. All the domains registered by the HR-DNS service before these Regulations become effective, remain registered, regardless of the possible non-compliance with the provisions of these Regulations. The users of such domains have to submit to the HR-DNS service within a year from the day these Regulations become effective, the documentation that the HR-DNS service may request in order to update the documentation with the provisions of these Regulations. The users of domains registered before the day these Regulations become effective can, if they want to, request in a written form, and no later than one year from the day these Regulations become effective, the change of name of their domain for compliance with these Regulations. The registration of domains with new names will be made within 6 months from the date of request for changing the domain name. Possible disputes related to domains registered before the day these Regulations become effective, are settled in accordance with the Article 72 of these Regulations.

Article 89

The Board and the HR-DNS service manager will be appointed according to the provisions in Articles 27 and 30 of these Regulations on the day these Regulations become effective. The documents from Article 34 of these Regulations have to be produced within 30 days from the day these Regulations become effective. If due to the non-existence of documents from Article 34 of these Regulations it is not possible to carry out the procedures in compliance with these Regulations, these procedures will be postponed until the day the necessary documents are produced.

Article 90

The Board will, within a period of 6 months from the day these Regulations become effective, provide and initially publish the list of HR-V domains from Article 44 of these Regulations. During the mentioned period, the board will inform through various activities the government and local authorities about the concepts and principles of managing HR domain, as well as with the intentions and provisions of these Regulations, and invite them to realise their rights related to HR-V domains resulting from these Regulations. Until the expiration of the period mentioned in Item 1 of this Article, the HR-DNS service and the Board may refuse registration of certain HR-P domains and HR-D domains, stating that these are the domains that can be registered in the list from Article 44 of these Regulations.

Article 91

Registration of HR-I domains according to the provisions of these Regulations will start 6 months from the day these Regulations become effective.

Article 92

The Board will, within a period of 6 months from the day these Regulations become effective, provide and initially publish the list of members of the Arbitration tribunal from Article 73 of these Regulations. Until the list of Arbitration tribunal members is published it is not possible to submit arbitration requests nor start arbitration procedure.

Article 93

The HR-DNS service will within a period of 12 months from the day these Regulations become effective propose technical mechanism for management distribution of certain types of domains, thus allowing transfer of certain rights from these Regulations, especially registration procedures and changed related to the registered domains to other legal entities. The Board will within a period of 12 months from the day these Regulations become effective propose the procedure and criteria for including other legal subjects in the distributed management of certain types of domains. Legal subjects from Item 2 of this Article will be allowed to join the distributed system of managing domains as follows:

(a) for HR-T domains, no later than 15 months from the day these Regulations become effective;

(b) for HR-F domains, no later than 24 months from the day these Regulations become effective;

(c) for HR-P domains, HR-D and HR-I domains, no later than 36 months from the day these Regulations become effective.

Article 94

In the case of dispute between the domain users, applicants and the third parties and CARNet, as HR domain administrator, the parties will try to settle the dispute by agreement, and if this proves impossible, then the Court in Zagreb is competent.

Article 95

The Regulations regarding Organisation of the Top-Level "hr" Internet Domain and the Management of the Top-Level "hr" Domain are issued by the CARNet Board of Governors appointed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, performing the rights pertaining to the Republic of Croatia, as the founder of the Croatian Academic and Research Network, CARNet.

Article 96

Any changes and modifications of the Regulations regarding Organisation of the Top-level "hr" Internet Domain and the Principles of Managing the Top-level "hr" Domain are issued by the CARNet Board of Governors in a written form.

Class: 104-000/00-11/1
Reg.No.: 650-01-00-1
President of the CARNet Board of Governors
Prof. Slavko Krajcar PhD