International protection is a system by which states provide protection to persons fleeing the state of their nationality for certain reasons or to persons who cannot be placed under its protection. According to the Law of International and Temporary Protection, international protection includes two terms, the term asylum and subsidiary protection. Asylum is a status granted to an applicant who is outside the country of his nationality or residence and has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, which is why he cannot or does not want to accept protection of that country (article 20.). Subsidiary protection is a status granted to an applicant who does not qualify for asylum if there are reasons to believe that returning to the country of origin will face a real risk of suffering serious injustice and who is unable or unwilling to accept the protection of that country (article 21.). The system of international protection is complex because it is of great importance to ensure the necessary rights and obligations of persons who requested it, and especially because the personal circumstances of applicant are often very traumatic, so it is necessary to determine the procedures for their approval as detailed and precise as possible, their rights and obligations as well as the procedures for termination and annulment of international protection. Except for the approval process, the paper also contains the most important parts of European documents, the Dublin Regulation, Regulation on Eurodac, Directive on temporary protection, Directive of laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection, Directive of qualification and Directive of procedures asylum which have been incorporated into Croatian legislation.