Monday, 18 May 2015

25th Sitting of the Culture and Information Committee

At the sitting held on 18 May, the Culture and Information Committee discussed the Report on the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the Law on Personal Data Protection in 2014, submitted by the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, in the part relating to the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance.


Elaborating the Report, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic said that the access to information of public importance has been on a continuous rise in the last several years. On the other hand, Sabic said that a great many problems were also recorded in 2014, some of them persistent, lasting for several years now. The Commissioner’s activities are expanding and compounding every year, consequently, the number of cases filed in 2014 is almost 18 times higher than in the first year of operation viz. 2005, said Sabic.

He also stressed that some public authorities ignore the requests for free access to information of public importance, which is something that needs to be remedied.

The Committee members declared the Report exhaustive and systematic and asked additional questions about the Commissioner’s authority as regards processing complaints and application of the legislation regulating the area.

The Committee members will rule on the Conclusion proposal on the reviewed Report at one of the upcoming sittings.

The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairperson Vesna Marjanovic.


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