Commissioner for information of public significance Rodoljub Šabić has participated in Media Center today in the session dedicated to presentation on Law of  classification of confidential data and the Law on amendments and additions to the Law on free information access.    

Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić who participated in the work of the session as a member of an expert group for making the mentioned models of the Law has, among other things said:

„For quality implementation of the Law on free information access, a lack of  complementary laws founded on democratic standards presents quite a problem. Number of times have I pointed out to a need of adopting such laws, and foremost the Law on classification of confidential data, the Law on protection of individual data and Law on  access to secret service files..

Especially, we should not ignore the fact that we remain one of the last countries in Europe not to have the Law on classification of confidential data, which instead has a number of laws and other rulings based on long outdated legal standards, anachronous and often mutually contradicting.

Implementation of the contemporary Law on classification of confidential data, is not only a matter of abstract need of introducing order in this field, but a matter of concrete reasons. Such law is the essential precondition for normal communication with countries who are members of integrations, where we also want to be. Besides, with present state of affairs a possibility is permanently open to almost in a random way attempting to deny  the access to different public information, without any criteria.. That opens to suggestion an opportunity created to hide behind a confidential status a completely illegitimate interests, ranging from sturdy traditionalism and conservatism to incompetence and lacking in  results to misuse, crime and corruption. I believe it is redundant to comment on how important it is to eliminate such a possibility, or to reduce it at least..“