Source: „Blic"
Calling on his right to freely access information of public importance, our co-citizen M.S. has recently tried to find out what was the cost for compilation of new biometric documents, as well as in what way the price that the citizens have to pay for those new biometric documents is formed.
He didn't receive the requested information with the explanation that they are „strictly confidential". When he asked why are they strictly confidential, he received a reply that this is so envisaged by the Rule Book on Professional and State Secret and the Method of Issuing and Relieving from Keeping Professional and State Secret. When he asked where he can see the quoted Rule Book, he received a reply that he can't see it, that the Rule Book itself is also „strictly confidential".
The thing he couldn't see I had to see as a Commissioner, following his claim. That brought to me an opportunity to become acquainted with the context of a „general enactment", the least said „interesting" one. One value of that Rule Book is beyond dispute, the museum-type one. It has been passed more than 32 years ago, in distant 1976, four years before the death of J. B. Tito and his contents are reminiscent of memories of many already forgotten things - from „our socialist self-managing society", further on. The closing provision of the Rule Book is especially „interesting" because it envisages that it „will not be published in the ‘Official Gazette' of the Socialist Republic of Serbia".
It is really absurd that here and today such a Rule Book is still applied, and that according to someone's opinion it forms an obstacle for exercising the rights
