On the occasion of 10th December, International Human Rights Day, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance remarked that, in spite of certain and obvious improvements, a lot remains to be done in Serbia in the field of adoption of standards upon which, in the democratic society, the human rights and freedom are based, naturally including the free media, freedom of speech, free access to information and its free dissemination.

Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic has, among other things, stated the following:

„The basic, although not in itself a sufficient premise for human rights to be exercised here in the way they are exercised in the developed democratic society remains the harmonization of our legislation with the European one, i.e. acceptance of affirmed legal standards of the democratic society.

Tardiness in the harmonizing process of our legislation has negative consequences on the level and modality of exercising of human rights. The worrying fact is that we have no Law on Classified Information and no Personal Information Protection Law to be harmonized with European standards. In the same context, we cannot avoid the fact that Serbia is one of the few European countries that have not answered to a 10-year old request of the Council of Europe to make accessible to the public the information contained in secret service files.

Adoption of these Laws should be one of the priorities to be tackled at the next Session of the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia.“