Commissioner for Information of Public Importance has evaluated as upsetting the relationship which the Government of Serbia has, during proposing the budget for 2006 showed in relation to the conditions of work of the institutions performing anti-corruption capacities.

The  Commissioner Mr. Rodoljub Sabic has especially stressed the following:

„For the needs of the Service of Commissioner for Information, the Government has proposed for the whole 2006, the amount which is 20% smaller than the one provided for the second half of the previous year.  Such proposal ignores the fact that an increasing number of citizens ask from the  Commissioner to protect their rights, and that at least a half of the governmental bodies still do not apply or detrimentally apply the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Interest, that the scope of operations of the Service is constantly increasing, and it is therefore already now clear that the scope in 2006 must be multiple times more than in the previous year.

It would also be good if this was a lonely case, but it is not. It is very upsetting that  although not in such a drastic measure as in the case of the Commissioner, almost all institutions, with the basic function of fight against corruption, shall have budgets which are realistically smaller than the last year's ones. Even if the nominal increases exist in certain cases, they are anyway smaller than the inflation rate.

In the procedure for budget approval, such solutions should be changed and adopted to the real needs of fight against corruption. If that shall not be so, the budget could become one more source of dilemmas regarding the actual readiness of the Government to fight against corruption.“