The commissioner for Information of public importance and the protection of personal data, Rodoljub Sabic, regarding the submission of the Bill for the opening of the files of secret service, estimates that the very  beginning of  the process of opening the files of security services in Serbia, deserves full support.

However, the Commissioner warns that it is necessary prerequisite to the adoption of the Law with equitable, qualitative and, most importantly, enforceable solution to the previously detailed look at the real dimensions of this task, and to define and provide the means necessary for its implementation. Without this, the law couldn’t serve a real purpose, and also could become a new source of threat to constitutionally guaranteed rights and the law.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said the following:

"The logical first step in the process of opening files should be the adoption of the fair and quality solutions, based on the best comparative experiences that are at our disposal. But certainly, it’s not enough that the solutions are good only on paper, they need to be confirmed in practice, to be enforceable. To really be so, it is necessary first to thoroughly examine the comprehensiveness and seriousness of this work, and most importantly, to define and provide significant funds for its implementation.

Leaving aside, at least on this occasion, the fact that we lack reliable answers to many very important questions for this topic, I will remind again that the Commissioners of Germany for the files of the former East German secret service (Stasi) and now, after years and as a very important part of the problem is resolved, employs about 2,000 people with a budget of around 100 million euros. We do not need so many resources, but we do need a clear idea of what are really need. And of course, the willingness to provide these funds.

Without that, the  law cannot serve its true purpose and two options can be opened as real, both undesirable. We can get another "historic" legislation such as, for the example. Lustration law that exists in Serbia for eight years but has not be  applied. Or, worse yet, we can, in the case of adoption and attempts to applying the law without the necessary resources lead to a serious threat to the constitution and legally guaranteed rights, particularly the protection of personal data. "