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In a letter he directed to the Prime Minister today, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection asked the Government to, by passing a separate bylaw or by changing its internal rules, find a way to adhere to its legal obligation to, in case there is a need, ensure the compliance with the decisions of the Commissioner, and to finally start fulfilling that obligation.

In the Commissioner’s opinion, the increase in the number of disrespected decisions is a direct consequence of the fact that the Government is not obeying its obligation to ensure the decision’s forced fulfillment. This is a serious problem which puts the results achieved in the application of the Law on the Free Access to Information in danger and throws a shadow on the proclaimed Government politics of transparency strengthening, which is a very important presupposition for achieving aims such as further democratization, the fight against corruption, and others, and that is why this problem should be solved without delay.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic also stated the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection warned all of the responsible ones once again that it would be very bad if, on all of the efforts directed at organizing and conducting the selection for national minority national councils which are important for the affirmation of democratic standards, a shadow of personal data protection right infringement was cast. The Commissioner asked all the responsible ones to take all the necessary measures in order to make sure that this does not occur when compiling special voting lists for the selection of the national minority national councils.

The Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following in relation to this:

In connection with yesterday’s announcement of the High Judicial Council that it “never received a request from the Judges’ Association of Serbia for access to information and that it informed the Commissioner for Information about that”, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection said that the announcement certainly does not contribute towards provision of objective information to the public.

The Commissioner considers that efforts of all responsible persons should be aimed at making all relevant information on the procedure of general appointment of judicial officials available to the public instead at unnecessary public polemics over this issue. But taking into account that the announcement of the High Judicial Council indirectly implies possible negligence or omission in Commissioner’s work, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic considers it is his duty to point to the following: