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From the ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSPARENCY IN EUROPE Conference held in Belgrade on the 18^th of November 2010

 «The Administrative Transparency in Europe» Conference, held in Belgrade on the 18^th of November 2010, was organized by the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Serbia, and the Management Improvement Support Program (the SIGMA Program).

The aim of this Conference was to present and discuss the SIGMA Study on the policies of transparency and open governance in member states of the EU, to promote good policies and regulations related to task transparency and openness in public administration, as well as to promote the importance of the responsibility of institutions and mechanisms of democratic state development.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Mr. Rodoljub Sabic met today with Ms. Kristina Kotnik-Sumah, Ms. Rosana Lemut-Strle and Mr. Andrej Tomsic, the deputies of the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia. The guests from Slovenia will spend several days in Belgrade, as part of the UNDP-supported project related to the cooperation on the improvement in personal data protection and the free access to information. As a part of the project, the deputies of the Slovenian Commissioner will, besides a series of presentations and consultative and educational conversations with the associates of the Commissioner for Information of the Republic of Serbia, visit the Ministry of the Interior and the Republic Health Insurance Institute. On Wednesday, Ms. Natasa Pirc-Musar, the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, will arrive in Belgrade, where she will take part in the «The Administrative Transparency in Europe» Conference, hosted by the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic and organized in cooperation with SIGMA (a joint initiative of OSCE and the European ) and UNDP.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic sent a letter to Minister Milan Markovic, the Kraljevo Aid Provision Coordinator of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, and made a total of fifty million dinars available for aid efforts.

The aforementioned funds were not used by the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection even though they were allotted in the state budget.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic spoke today with the State Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac about certain problems related to the possibility of access to data by the Public Prosecutor's Office on electronic communications of citizens from databases kept by the electronic communication operators and providers.

The Commissioner stated that the meeting was very useful, since it confirmed the resolve of the leading persona of the state prosecutorial structure to, when it comes to the implementation of measures of automatic computer search of personal and other related data, strictly apply the provisions of the Constitution and the Criminal Proceedings Law, meaning to ensure that the application of such measures was only possible upon a decision of a court of law.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following: