Recommendations 23. Based on the above information, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to Croatia: I. Protect and advance the rights of minorities, in particular by tackling antiGypsyism and ensuring the swift resolution of remaining legal status issues, including to eliminate the risk of statelessness. II. Establish a dedicated statelessness determination procedure in line with UNHCR guidance and good practice and grant stateless people on the territory the rights due to them under the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons. III. Amend the Law on Croatian Citizenship to introduce full safeguards to prevent childhood statelessness in all cases in line with international obligations under the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. IV. Amend the Act on Free Legal Aid to introduce stateless persons as beneficiaries of the Act, and ensure access to free legal aid for stateless persons in practice. V. Improve data collection on stateless persons and those at risk of statelessness in Croatia and publish reliable disaggregated data on the stateless population in the country. VI. Invest resources and capacity in operationalising mobile teams in order to provide administrative support for identifying and resolving cases of statelessness and risk of statelessness and to improve data on the affected population. VII. Implement the Zagreb Declaration 2011 in national legislation in order to encourage cooperation between the relevant institutions (i.e. Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policies) to address statelessness and the risk of statelessness. VIII. Establish bilateral agreements with the Republic of Serbia and BosniaHerzegovina (including the Republic of Srpska) on the effective exchange of information, data and documents for their citizens residing in other countries. IX. Accede to the 1997 European Convention on Nationality and the 2006 Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession. 6