At the session held on 16 December 2022, the Croatian Parliament passed the Act on Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Science, which regulates internal quality assurance and quality enhancement of higher education institutions and research institutes, external quality assessment of higher education institutions and research institutes, and the organisational structure and competences of the Agency for Science and Higher Education.

The new Act (Official Gazette 151/22) superseded the Act on Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education (Official Gazette 45/2009) on 30 December 2022. According to the Act on Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Science (OG 151/22) the Agency carries out initial accreditation of research institutes, re-accreditation of research institutes, initial accreditation of PhD programmes, one-off evaluation and thematic evaluation in science.