The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic and the Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic expressed deep concern following reports that the communications of the head of state Tomislav Nikolic and the deputy prime minister Aleksandar Vucic have been targets of illegal surveillance.
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection received today a 15-member delegation from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) who represent an initiative prompting adoption of a Law on the Whistleblowers. The delegation included representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representatives of of the parliaments of the entities of the Republic of Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of the BiH Agency for the Fight against Corruption and representatives of the non-governmental organsations.
The Commissioner has promised assistance to his guests from Bosnia and Herzegovina in developing activities related to the preparation of legal mechanisms for protection of whistleblowers. Since they were particularly interested in the progress of the project for the creation of a model law on protection of whistleblowers in Serbia which is being coordinated by the Commissioner, with a support by the British Embassy and the Embassy of Netherlands, the Commissioner has promised that all the results of the project will be available, both those that have already been reached and those that will be achieved only in future.
In this context, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic, declared the following:
The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest and Personal Data Protection believes that it is necessary to review the impact of the Law on data confidentiality. The Commissioner thinks that nearly three years after the adoption of the law, the lack of desired results could not be ignored because of the undoubted importance of this law for the realization of the right to free access to information, and for general legal certainty and security interests of the country.
In this context the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic declared the following:
Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has forwarded today to the Government of the Republic of Serbia Initiative for Proposing to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia the Law on Security Checks.
In relation to that, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following:
