With the emergence of environmental policy, the realization that an increase in the quality of life is not possible without further economic progress takes hold, leading to greater concern for the quality of the environment. The first UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm in 1972. Today's policy is focused on local and rural areas. The Republic of Croatia and the European Union are the ones who prescribe measures and laws for environmental protection and improvement of environmental quality. The Environmental Protection Act (Official Gazette 118/18) stipulates that the effectiveness of environmental protection is ensured by the Croatian Parliament and the Government of the Republic of Croatia, as well as by the representative and executive bodies of local and regional self-government units. The funds for financing environmental protection come from the state budget, the budgets of local and regional self-government units and other sources, but also from the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund in accordance with the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act. The aim of this work is to provide an overview of the documents related to environmental protection in Benkovac, Našice and Vis, to identify all measures implemented with the aim of environmental protection and to compare the objectives in selected local self-government units. All selected local self-government units have in common that they base their environmental protection and preservation strategy on the National Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia until 2030 and that each local self-government unit has its own waste management plan. Each city has its own development strategy and implementation program for a specific period, in which it mentions the protection and preservation of the environment and the measures to achieve the set goals for the given topic.