The Ombudsman’s 2019 Regular Annual Report was presented by Ombudsman Zoran Pasalic. He said that the Report provides a general assessment of the exercise of citizens' rights in 2019, Ombudsman’s recommendations, opinions and legislative initiatives, as well as exercise of rights of particularly vulnerable groups, children, LGBT people, people with disabilities and the elderly, minorities, and the national torture prevention mechanism. The Report also covers people’s civil, economic/property and social and cultural rights.

Pasalic said that in 2019, 10,862 citizens addressed the Ombudsman, and the body received 3,276 complaints of civil rights violations. In the course of 2019, the Ombudsman issued a total of 934 recommendations to the Administration bodies, the largest number of which, 118, relate to the Administration department.

Having reviewed the Ombudsman’s 2019 Regular Annual Report, the Committee adopted the following Conclusion:

The Report on the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the Law on Personal Data Protection in 2019 was presented by the secretary general of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Support Service Marinko Radic. He said that thought the right to free access to information of public importance was used to a large extent in 2019, it was still difficult to exercise on a large scale without the intervention of the Commissioner. He pointed out that this right was most often exercised by citizens, followed by civic associations, media representatives, government bodies, political parties, lawyers, business entities and others. The Report states that applicants had most difficulties in obtaining information regarding the spending of budgetary funds, public procurement and other issues concerning the disposal of public funds, public property records and similar. 6,760 cases were filed in 2019, most of which, 5,275, were complaints related to the spending of budgetary funds.

Having reviewed the Report on the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the Law on Personal Data Protection in 2019, the Committee adopted the following Conclusion:

The Committee moved to submit the adopted conclusion proposals to the National Assembly under urgent procedure.

The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairman Vladimir Djukanovic and attended by the following Committee members and deputy members: Nevena Veinovic, Sanja Lakic, Danijela Veljkovic, Dejan Kesar, Toma Fila, Djordje Dabic, Nenad Baros, Ugljesa Markovic, Nebojsa Pavlovic, Vladica Maricic, Jelena Zaric Kovacevic and Milica Nikolic.