Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Šabić, talked today to Minister of Culture Nebojša Bradić about problems in the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, particularly those which are caused by the Ministry of Culture and Serbian Government's failure to meet their legal obligations.
Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić said that the recent valuable discovery of hitherto unknown historical documents in the Archive of Serbia had to give rise to serious reconsideration not only of actual conditions in which this important state institution operates, but also of the existing or lacking legal solutions necessary for the Archive to perform its functions properly. From the aspect of exercise of freedom of information, the Commissioner emphasized problems arising from the non-existence of a separate law on handling secret services files, and he reiterated his support for passing such law.
Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Sabic, has in the letter sent to the Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia, Mirko Cvetkovic, suggested to the Government to change certain solutions by amendments to the text of Proposal of the Personal Data Protection Act, that the Government has recently determined and delivered to the National Assembly.
Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić says that by passing the Draft Law on Personal Data Protection the Serbian Government took a crucial step towards establishing a legal mechanism which Serbia, unfortunately, does not have and which is necessary to a modern democratic society.
With the full principal support to the passing of this Law, the Commissioner warns that certain arrangements included in the Draft Law can present real threat for thwarting or getting around the guaranteed protection and that in the process of adoption they should be critically reconsidered, amended or eliminated.
