The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has participated at the round table ''Whistleblower Protection'' organized under the Project of Modeling of the Whistleblower Protection Law in Novi Pazar today. In his conversation with the representatives of the media and NGOs the Commissioner has stressed the need to employ all available resources, of both the state and the society, to the maximum extent in the fight against corruption.

In this regard, the Commissioner has emphasized that based on the experiences of other countries' citizens, who are ready to point out corruption and other illegal activities in their communities in the public interest, may contribute significantly to the fight against corruption. Fortunately, there are such citizens in our country. Unfortunately, as a rule, they face extremely unpleasant consequences – from mobbing, disciplinary, infringement or even criminal prosecution, to job loss.

The Commissioner has stressed that the reasons of fairness alone, and especially the reasons of efficient fight against corruption demand those people, the whistleblowers, to be fully protected under the law and that he expects that we will have finally adopted the Whistleblower Protection Law in the course of the next year.