Restrictions of Fundamental Rights in Private Law Relations in the Special Legal Order, with Exceptional Regard to the Specific Circumstances Caused by the Epidemic

Abstract

In this text, the author analyses the intervention measures within the realm of private law relations that were aimed at alleviating or possibly also eliminating the consequences of the serious epidemic.  The author presents and analyses the measures introduced in Croatian law to protect private law entities in their private law relations affected by the consequences of the pandemic and the public health measures. The author’s focus is on the impact of these measures on the protection and restriction of fundamental rights in private law relations to establish whether they met all the necessary requirements when allowing for such restrictions of fundamental rights in private law relations. The aim of this paper is to consider the criteria for the assessment and proportionality of these measures which in private law relations restrict people’s fundamental rights while being imposed to protect people’s health in a serious epidemic.