Croatia Procedure & Dates

Croatia has just started to look for songs! Esctoday reports that:

* HRT just made an open call for songs by local artists only - alongside 10 composers invited by them.

* The invited composers will go directly to the final.

* Semi final on 27.02.2009 and the final the next day - 28.02.2009.

* Deadline is 12.12.2008

* 14 songs chosen to compete in the semi final, with the televoting qualifying to the final 6 of them.

* The Final will consist of 6 Semi final qualifiers plus the 10 invited authors entries.

* Winner selected 50:50 by televoting & juries.