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The Commissioner for the information of the public importance will, according to the law, give the National Parliament of the Republic of Serbia the report of the application of the law of the free access to the information of the public importance.

The report will include, not just the measures and activities that the Commissioner is taking, but will also include the information relevant for the valuation of the condition in the field of the law of the free access in general.

Time- limit in which the state authorities are obliged to give their reports to the Commissioner is over. Commissioner`s Service began with the work on the huge materials that came and the report of the Commissioner will be given to the National Parliament during next month.

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance published in official electronic presentation www.poverenik.org.yu a Catalogue of Public Authorities. The document contains data about 10 847 state and other bodies and organizations with obligations pertaining to the Law on Free Access to Information. According to the Law, there belong, besides state authorities, territorial autonomy authorities, those of local self government, organizations in charge of public authorizations, also legal entities established by or that are completely or in large part financed by the state.

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Šabić, has today once again reminded all authorities of their legal obligation to deliver Annual Report on Actions They Have Implemented in Order to Implement the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance. The Reports should contain prescribed data about the number of accepted applications for accessing information, number of submitted claims, amount of collected claims and the measures implemented in relation to publishing of the Information booklet, maintenance of information carrier and training of the employees for Law implementation. Those Reports represent a basis for compilation of Status Report in this field that a Commissioner delivers to the National Assembly.

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić, evaluated submitting of Amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act by the Ombudsman Saša Janković, as a confirmation of the Ombudsman's readiness to consistently and in principle insist on civil rights' protection and he appealed to the Government of Serbia to accept those amendments as though the Government has made them. The Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić has especially stressed the importance of the amendments pleading for elimination of those provisions from the law proposal, that open up the opportunity for tricking the proclaimed protection. In relation to that, the Commissioner Rodoljub Šabić has especially stressed: