The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection believes that the Draft Law on Publishing of Laws and Other Regulations and Enactments prepared by the Serbian Government and submitted to the National Assembly for endorsement contains some very important innovations which certainly deserve to be endorsed by deputies.

Emphasizing that the adoption of the provisions establishing and regulating the so-called "Legal Information System of the Republic of Serbia" would mean the achievement of a goal advocated for quite some time not only by him personally, but also by the vast majority of the general public and the expert community and that it would significantly improve and modernize the total legal order, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic also said the following:

introduction of the Legal Information System as a data file containing: the Official Gazette in the electronic form, Official Gazette archive, a database containing a register and text of the currently applicable regulations and other enactments of the Republic of Serbia published in the Official Gazette, a database containing case law, other data on the legal system of the Republic of Serbia and a link to legal instruments of the European Union is a step which obviously contributes to improved knowledge of relevant legal facts by citizens and legal entities. It thus also contributes to legal certainty and a higher quality of their activities.

It is very good and in keeping with the times that the Law also envisages compulsory publication of this data file on official Internet pages of a public enterprise entrusted with this task.

And what is particularly commendable is the fact that the Draft Law expressly envisages that the register, as well as unofficially consolidated texts of regulations, original issues of the Official Gazette (in pdf format) where main texts of regulations are published, as well as those where amendments are published are available to all users free of charge.

It stands to reason that when a government enacts laws and other regulations, it insists on citizens' and other entities' compliance with them. To be able to do so, they should be timely and well informed about the content of those regulations. And although it is common, it is illogical, unjust and contrary to the modern standards of relation between the government and the public to also charge for access to those regulations. The adoption of the proposed law would eliminate such illogicalness and injustice from the Serbian legal order."