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Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection spoke today with Lawrence Vetter, USAID JRGA Project Manager (Judiciary Refom and Government Accountability Project) and his collaborators about support the USAID can and intends to render to the Commissioner's activities.

Evaluating the meeting as very successful, and the USAID support as welcome and very useful, the Commissioner, Rodoljub Sabic also stated:

Upon complaints received from a number of citizens regarding problems in implementation of the so-called Busplus Program, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection inspected implementation and execution of the Law on Personal Data Protection by the Marketing and Services Company "Аpex Solution Technology" d.o.o.

Upon inspection, the Commissioner banned processing of certain primary school pupils' personal data by this company and ordered certain measures to be taken.

In that regard, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic also said the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has sent to the addresses of all the ministers in the Serbian Government a letter of warning about the obligations of the ministries towards the public under the Law on Free Access to Public Information,

The Commissioner has emphasized the responsibilities relating to proactive disclosure of information about the performance of public authorities in information booklets on the official electronic presentations of the authorities.

Having estimated the current state of information booklets on official presentations of the ministries as bad and very far from satisfactory, the Commissioner pointed out that the ministries should take actions to ensure compliance of the contents of information booklets with the law as soon as possible.

In this context the Commissioner, Rodoljub Sabic, has stated the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Mr. Rodoljub Sabic, said the announcement issued yesterday by the NGO "Medics against Corruption" – which contained a number of allegations concerning him, including that he misappropriated money within the framework of the project "Whistleblower Protection" – was not only a complete and utter falsehood, but also an act of deliberate character assassination.

On this issue, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said: