Source: "Blic"

Guest commentator

Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information

Infringement reports filed by the State Audit Institution (SAI) against the group of former and current officials, have reminded us once more of the possibility of omissions to penalize the perpetrators of certain criminal offences, due to the statute of limitation.

Source: "Blic"

Rodoljub Šabić, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, believes that the forthcoming law on electronic communications has to regulate the question of electronic communication privacy limitations, even though the cabinet of the Minister of Telecommunications claims that the law will not encompass such measures.

Source: "Blic"

Secret service has been left too wide space for possible manipulation.

According to the Law on Security Intelligence Agency, collection of data on performed telephone communication, without insight into its contents shall not be deemed as infringing privacy of citizens, and therefore it necessitates only the Agency Manager’s decision.

T. N. Đaković

Source: "Danas"

I am writing to you regarding the text of Mr. Zoran Lazarevic, attorney and trustee of ’Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut’ Institute for Public Health, titled „Serious Case of Law Underestimation“, which was published in your publication on February 2nd, 2010.

In his commentary on my article „Torlak and Batut do not provide information of public importance“ published in ’Danas’ on January 15th, 2010, Mr. Lazarevic finds that „mister commissioner should be reminded that according to the law in question (Law on the Free Access to Information of Public Importance) there is a right to being informed and a right to not provide the information requested, and that he, and I emphasize again, the courts behind him, are the ones that determine which one of the two rights are valid on a case-by-case basis“.

Source: "Blic"

Lately the media have been reporting that none of the procedures instituted against political parties for failure to comply with the legal requirement to submit reports on their funding have been completed, that many procedures are now statute-barred and that the same obviously awaits all the remaining procedures. That “news“ is bad, but it is actually not surprising at all, because every day we are witnessing instances of failure to initiate proceedings or allowing cases to become statute-barred when the perpetrators are those in power.

Source: "Glas javnosti”

AN INCREASE OF THE USE OF THE RIGHT TO FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE IN SERBIAN CITIZENS

Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, claims that there is an increase in the number of requests for public information from individuals, the media and political parties

Source: Politika

The deadline passed back in July 2009, and the members of the commission have not been suggested to this very day

Rodoljub Sabic,

Commissioner for Information

The ugly truth that the fight against corruption is a topic where the gap between the normative and the real is probably best seen has, unfortunately, been confirmed by another example – postponement of implementation of the solutions from the ‘’new’’ Law on Public Procurements.   And the ‘’new’’ Law, which was at the time of its adoption deemed a very important contribution to anticorruption efforts, actually is not new anymore. It came into effect in January last year.