Source: : Politika
Classification of certain information as confidential understands legal procedure and protection mechanisms. To avoid random will and misuse. Data or documents classified as confidential once, do not necessarily remain so forever, but depending on how confidential they are, they do have “expiry date.".
These are some of the news that should be included in the future law on confidentiality, and whose model was presented to us yesterday by the authors, professor dr. Vladimir Vodinelic, m.a. Dejan Milenkovic and Rodoljub Sabic, public information Commissioner. Only few countries in Europe do not have contemporary law on secrets, and also the one on free information access needs to be supplemented..Sabic has noticed that for its implementation, a political will is the key, but also the accountability mechanisms in cases of not respecting it. In the three year period there were several thousand offences of that law , only about hundred processed and only five brought to justice, says he. Few dozen of those requests were issued to the Government in charge of implementing decisions of the Commissioner, on the part of the Commissioner himself but none were implemented.
In the future it is suggested that in place of the person in charge of information access, a head of the government authority becomes in charge, and to introduce institute of outsider or whistle blower. It is the person who in spite of duty to guard as confidential certain information, makes these information available in cases of corruption and similar illegal actions as the insider would not under be called upon to answer..
Coalition for free information access gathering several non governmental organizations intents to shortly start collecting citizens of Serbia signatures to make sure that the models of these laws are brought to the Serbian Parliament as soon as possible.
