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The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Mr. Rodoljub Sabic attended the annual counseling of Serbian judges called “Judicial Days of Serbia” in Vrnjacka Banja. Addressing the meeting with a speech titled “Freedom of Access to Information and the Judiciary”, the Commissioner emphasized a need for the judiciary to make a substantial input in the affirmation of the freedom of access to information as a basic human right and as an assumption for the exercise of numerous other rights and freedoms. Among other things, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said:

Asked by Beta agency to comment on the possible adoption of the Law on Personal Data Protection, which could contain an amended provision from Article 45, paragraph 2 of the Bill which the Commissioner for Information criticized and the Ombudsman requested its deletion by an adequate amendment, Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić said the following:

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić said that score and ranking of our country on this year's Global Corruption Perception Index were worrying and that they mean that much will have to be reconsidered within the concept on which anti-corruption efforts were based. In this context, the Commissioner particularly emphasized the following:

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić evaluates that we should not too optimistically await the approaching publishing of the Annual Global Corruption Perception Index (CPI), that shall be organized by Transparency International by the end of this month in more than 180 countries of the world. It would be very good, but this is unfortunately of little probability that our country shall more importantly improve its mark in relation to the last year's one. Even the last year's mark in CPI, although the best so far, was still unsatisfactory, and classified us into the group of countries where corruption is a system problem. Therefore, whatever the mark in this year's CIP might be, it should be a basis for serious questioning of the things the state has done so far within anti-corruption efforts, and especially regarding the things it omitted to do.