06.10.2008.


   The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Mr. Rodoljub Sabic attended the annual counseling of Serbian judges called “Judicial Days of Serbia” in Vrnjacka Banja. Addressing the meeting with a speech titled “Freedom of Access to Information and the Judiciary”, the Commissioner emphasized a need for the judiciary to make a substantial input in the affirmation of the freedom of access to information as a basic human right and as an assumption for the exercise of numerous other rights and freedoms. Among other things, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said:
“The freedom of information implies

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26.09.2008.


   The meeting dedicated to celebration of the International Right to Know Day, 28 September was held today at the Media Centre in Belgrade with participation of a large number of representatives of media, NGOs, government bodies and diplomatic chorus members. Addresses were made by: Milan Marković, Minister of State Administration and Local Self-government, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, Saša Janković, Ombudsman, Nadežda Gaće, President of the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia, Tamara Orlandić on behalf of the Open Society Fund and NGO Coalition on Fre

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25.09.2008.


   Asked by Beta agency to comment on the possible adoption of the Law on Personal Data Protection, which could contain an amended provision from Article 45, paragraph 2 of the Bill which the Commissioner for Information criticized and the Ombudsman requested its deletion by an adequate amendment, Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić said the following:
“I categorically claim and back it with all my expert and professional dignity that an arrangement similar to the one envisaged in Article 45 paragraph 2 of the Bill, which completely relativizes the powers of a body responsible for personal data protection

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