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The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Mr. Rodoljub Sabic, who has been receiving an increasing number of complaints from citizens and the media in this regard, warned today all public and private law entities which have or could have responsibilities under the Law on Personal Data Protection about the need to take adequate action in order to be able to tackle such responsibilities. The Commissioner emphasized in particular that the periods set for bringing the data files and records established before the effectiveness of that Law in compliance with the standards specified therein had already begun.

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Sabic said that protection of people who stood up against abuses and corruption in their environments and come into conflict with formal or informal secrets in that way was of huge importance for improvement of freedom to access to information and for success in the fight against corruption. Warning that such people as a rule faced unpleasant consequences, the Commissioner said that the management of the public enterprise “Putevi Srbije” undoubtedly made an important move by reinstating of the dismissed worker who gave a major contribution to the uncovering of the “road mafia”. In connection with this, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic also said the following:

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Sabic said that in connection with the actions the Serbian Government was taking or announcing for putting in order the field of salaries and compensations for managements of public enterprises, we should bear in mind the need to achieve a much higher level of transparency in the work of these and other subjects. The Commissioner said that salaries of management were a legitimate concern of the public, but they were not the only and the most interesting concerns and there was much information which should be controlled by the public for many reasons.