To ensure fair and impartial information is provided to the public, the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection presents the following facts in connection with yesterday's Announcement by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, which stated that this Prosecutor's Office had complied with the Commissioner's order and provided the requester with the information about the case number and the name and surname of the case prosecutor investigating the demolition of buildings in Hercegovacka street in Belgrade (the "Savamala" case) and had allegedly also given the Commissioner notice of this:

"The Commissioner's decision had been passed on 5 September this year and the Prosecutor's Office certainly did not comply with the order within the specified time limit.

The Prosecutor's Office had not, as it alleged, informed the Commissioner that it complied with the order. On the contrary, the only document the Prosecutor's Office has submitted to the Commissioner in this regard so far is a document dated 21 September this year which was received on 26 September this year. It is evident from this document that the decision had not been complied with and the document alleged the case had been forwarded to the Republic Public Prosecutor's Office, which was why the Commissioner addressed the Republic Public Prosecutor and warned her that the Higher Prosecutor's Office was in breach of the law and had committed a punishable offence. If the Higher Prosecutor's Office changed its mind at the last moment, this is commendable. It is, however, far from commendable that it is trying to misinform the public about the circumstances under which it did so.

The statement of the Prosecutor's Office that information was provided to the requester was effectively disproven by the requester himself, who yesterday, on 29 September, filed a petition with the Commissioner for of administrative enforcement of the Comissioner's decision because he had not received information."