The Commissioner for Information of the Republic of Serbia urged the Serbian Government and all relevant political factors to use the excess situation in connection with the salaries and bonuses of Belgrade Airport management as an excuse to activate mechanisms which had existed for a long time in the normative system, but were never put in place. Such situations should not be occasions for exaltations and for paying lip service to respecting the right of the public; instead, they should but for real improvement of relations between the Government and the public.

In connection with this, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic also said the following:

"The right of the public to information on the work of the Government and state enterprises must not be exercised only occasionally when it is politically convenient for someone, in a haphazard fashion. The rights of the public should be continuously reaffirmed; they should not be remembered only in occasional excess situations. It is high time the Serbian Government took action to ensure the execution of duties set out in the Law on Free Access to Information and to impose liability for failure to perform such duties.

The Government should support consistent execution of duties of public authorities and enterprises to publish their directories in the public domain, including on the Internet. That duty is expressly set by the Law on Free Access to Information and elaborated in the Guide which the Commissioner for Information passed as early as in 2005 within his legal powers. Still, many public authorities do not publish directories and most of the published directories are not updated and as a rule do not contain information on salaries and compensations.

And yet, in the world which we strive so had to catch up with it is normal for information on salaries and other income of the management of State-owned companies, and indeed many private ones, to be publicly available. For example, the Commission of European Communities states in the Recommendation (2004/913/CE), among other things, that every listed company should publish a “declaration” on its remuneration policy. That implies posting official documents on the web sites of companies. As regards publishing of information on individual remuneration to ”administrators”, i.e. directors, members of the Board of Directors and Supervisory Committee or other managing bodies of a company, such documents list not only pecuniary income - salaries or wages, commission, bonuses, flat rates, share of profits, severance pays in case of removal from office or resignation, but also remuneration in the form of shares or distributed share options, possible special pension privileges and even amounts paid as loans or loan guarantees.

Of course, information on management salaries and remuneration is not the only and the most important information concerning the operations of public enterprises in our country. Information on entertainment costs, donations, sponsorships and similar expenditures and overall operations is also a fully legitimate object of public's interest and it should be available at any time.”