Source: Blic
DIFFICULT FOR UNDERSTANDING
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Rodoljub Sabic Commissioner for Information
Labor union and employees request from the Republic Agency for Privatization copy of the Contract on Sales of the RTB „Bor“ to Rumanian company CUPRUM. Because they didn't receive the copy, they used that opportunity as one of the reasons for public expression of dissent by the workers of RTB and the citizens of Bor. The labor union has declined the invitation of the Agency to discuss the Contract in their premises, and to talk about it in the presence of media. It has evaluated as illogical the idea to leaf through the Contract of couple of hundreds of pages in front of the camera, for an hour or two, and repeated the request that they should be delivered a copy of the Contract, and that the talks should be organized when they are familiarized with its contents. And now, the situation is in status quo.What is disputable regarding this requirement from the workers? Is it disputable that this is the good way for eliminating doubts and distrust? Or it is disputable that the request has been based on the law?
The very Privatization Act, as one of the four basic principles of privatization, stresses „providing for the public“, and it also contains an explicit provision that „on request, a copy of the Contract on Sales of the Company should be delivered to the employees“. It is understandable that many ordinary citizens do not know that, as they do not know the contents of many other laws. Maybe one could understand, if not justify that the people from the Privatization Agency do not know the rights from the Law on Free Access to Information, but it is difficult to understand their “lack of informed status” on the rights from the Privatization Act?
