The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, evaluates based on reactions of journalists' associations UNS and NUNS to the „news" that all the Information from the process of explanatory screening within the EU negotiations has been proclaimed as secret, and that as such they would be inaccessible to the public, as well as based on a larger number of individual addresses by the journalists, due to the same reason, that the attempts of such limitation of the right of the public would be without any valid legal ground.
In relation to that, the Commissioner, Rodoljub Sabic stated as follows:

„In the e-mail which has been sent from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to a certain number of people, who have been involved in the process of explanatory screening, alongside quoting that these are „obligations insistent upon by the European Commission" really writes that „all Information and data you might receive by following the explanatory screening shall be considered official secret in the next year, and as such cannot be made available to the media and third parties".
And the „essence" of this letter and of using the legally non-existing terminology, as well as the rank of this signatory indicate misunderstanding of the essence of the screening process, and much more importantly, lack of knowledge and understanding of our relevant laws.
The Data Secrecy Act and the Law on Free Access to information of Public Importance regulate all relevant issues regarding classifying sensitive data, as well as the access to them. There are no, especially informal requests of anyone, that can or must disavow the provisions of applicable laws.
I believe that the European Commission has not set any special conditions regarding secrecy of information during the screening process. Anyhow, even if it had set them, such requirements would have to be in a documented form. And even if they have been set in an adequate form, they could have been accepted (due to international courtesy and unhindered flow of negotiations) only in relation to evaluations, attitudes and opinions of the EC itself and its representatives, and the documents they have made available to us. This wouldn't in any case apply to the documents and Information, that is, the ones created and handled by our authorities in power, and which are, according to our laws, legitimate subject of interest of our public.
I wish to believe that the e-mail which has righteously triggered reactions is an expression and a consequence of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge of the issue it pertains to.
I am convinced that the European Commission has not requested full secrecy of all information, and that it hasn't set any special conditions regarding the secrecy of information pertaining to screening. In order to eliminate any possible misunderstanding in relation to that, during the following days I will talk about that topic with the Ambassador Davenport, Head of EU Mission in Serbia."