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Commissioner for Information and Personal Data Protection Mr. Rodoljub Sabic addressed a letter today to the Minister of Health, Prof. Zoranu Stankovic, M.D,  advising him of the necessity and urgency of tackling outstanding issues in connection with personal data protection in transfusion activities and in the field of organ donation and adequate donor protection.

Emphasising that the issues involved pertain to a serious risk of mass violation of fundamental human rights and stating he was at a loss to understand why the Ministry had given no response to a similar letter of warning sent by the Commissioner as early as last year, Mr. Rodoljub Sabic said:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has forwarded a letter today to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. Mirko Cvetković, in which he pointed out the problems related to the right of the public to have access to information on restitution of taken away property. While reminding that he had already pointed out several times the numerous problems related to access to information on restitution and that those who are demanding such information, get it only upon intervention of the Commissioner, thus for example, the Property Restitution Network of Serbia submitted over one hundred complaints to the Commissioner in the past period. Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić also said the following: