Constitution of the Republic of Serbia
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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Belgrade, 13 Trg Nikole Pasica Str.
tel: +381 11 3026 100
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www.parlament.gov.rs
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Belgrade, 1 Andricev venac Str.
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SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
Belgrade, 11 Nemanjina Str.
www.srbija.gov.rs
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Belgrade, 15 Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra
tel: + 381 11 285 5000
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www.ustavni.sud.rs
SUPREME COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Belgrade, 9 Nemanjina Str.
tel: +381 11 360 4606, fax: +381 11: 360 4605
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www.vrh.sud.rs;
SUPREME PUBLIC PROSECUTION OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: + 381 11 3613 702, + 381 11 3613 703
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OMBUDSMAN
Belgrade, 16 Deligradska Str.
tel: + 381 11 2068 100, + 381 64 876 8505
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www.ombudsman.rs
STATE AUDIT INSTITUTION
Belgrade, 41 Mekenzijeva Str.
tel: + 381 11 3042 200, + 381 11 3042 201, fax: +381 11 304 2234
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www.dri.rs
COMMISSIONER FOR PROTECTION OF EQUALITY
Belgrade, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 84
tel: +381 11 243 80 20, +381 11 243 64 64, fax: +381 11 243 81 84
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MINISTRIES
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Belgrade, 24-26 Kneza Milosa Str.
tel: + 381 11 3068 260
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www.mfa.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
Belgrade, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 2
tel: + 381 11 3062-000, ext. 2601
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www.mup.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Belgrade, 5 Bircaninova Str.
tel: + 381 11 3006-311
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www.mod.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Belgrade, 20 Kneza Milosa Str.
tel: + 381 11 3613 245
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www.mfin.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF ECONOMY
Belgrade, 20 Kneza Milosa Str.
tel: + 381 11 36 42 600
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www.privreda.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: +381 11 7858 000
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MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND WATER MANAGEMENT
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: +381 11 260 7960, + 381 11 3612 197
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MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
Belgrade, 6 Bircaninova Str.
tel: +381 11 362 0146, +381 11 361 3654
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www.mduls.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: + 381 11 3614 652,
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MINISTRY OF MINING AND ENERGY
Belgrade, 36 Kralja Milana Str.
tel: + 381 11 3604 403
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MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Belgrade, 11 Nemanjina Str.
tel: + 381 11 3110 271, + 381 11 3110 245
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: +381 11 3613-734
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MINISTRY OF SPORTS
Belgrade, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 2
tel: +381 11 3130 912, + 381 11 3117 099,
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www.mos.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: +381 11 3616 251 +381 11 3614 890
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www.zdravlje.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF LABOUR, EMPLOYMENT, VETERAN AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
tel: +381 11 3038 661
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www.minrzs.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND YOUTH
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str.
Phone: + 381 11 3616 536
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MINISTRY OF CULTURE
Belgrade, 3 Vlajkoviceva Str.
tel: +381 11 3398 638
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www.kultura.gov.rs
MINISTRY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Belgrade, Nemanjina 34 Str.
tel: + 381 11 3061 100, + 381 11 3061 102, +381 11 3061 103;
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MINISTRY OF FAMILY WELFARE AND DEMOGRAPHY
Belgrade, 2 Bulevar Mihajla Pupina Str.
tel: +381 11 2140 318
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MINISTRY OF RURAL WELFARE
Belgrade, 2a Bulevar Mihajla Pupina Str
tel: +381 11 3112 282; +381 11 2673 027
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MINISTRY FOR HUMAN AND MINORITY RIGHTS AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE
Belgrade, 2 Bulevar Mihajla Pupina Str
tel: +381 11 3114 528
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MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AND FOREIGN TRADE
Belgrade, 11 Nemanjina Str
tel: 011 3633 721; 011 3633 722
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MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION
Belgrade, 22-26 Nemanjina Str
tel: 011 3633 701
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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Belgrade, 7 Pariska Str
tel: 011 2020 058
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MINISTRY FOR PUBLIC INVESTMENT
Belgrade, 11 Nemanjina Str
tel: 011 3617 737; 011 3617 584
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NGO
TRANSPARENCY SERBIA
Belgrade, 31, Palmoticeva Str.
tel: +381 11 3033 827
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www.transparentnost.org.rs
SHARE FONDATION
Belgrade, 6a Kapetan Mišina 6a Str, Office 31
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PARTNERS FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE SERBIA
Belgrade, 9 Svetozara Markovića Str.
tel: + 381 11 3231 551, + 381 11 3231 552
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www.partners-serbia.org
EKOFORUM
Belgrade, 4 Durmitorska Str.
tel: 061 1430 192
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BELGRADE CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Belgrade, 4 Kneza Miloša Str.
tel: + 381 11 3085 328
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www.bgcentar.rs
CIVIC INITIATIVES
Belgrade, 4 Kneza Miloša Str.
tel: 011 3284 188; 011 3284 247
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LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - YUCOM
Belgrade, 4 Kneza Miloša Str.
tel: + 381 11 33 44 235, + 381 11 33 444 25
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www.yucom.org.rs
FUND FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY
Belgrade, 22 Resavska Str.
tel: + 381 11 30 25 800, Fax: + 381 11 3283 602
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www.fosserbia.org
STANDING CONFERENCE OF TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES
Belgrade, 22/VIII Makedonska Str.
Phone: +381 11 32 23 446, fax: +381 11 3221 215
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www.skgo.org
Who Can I Complain To?
Lodging of complaints with the Commissioner
An applicant (a citizen, a journalist, the media etc.) can lodge a complaint with the Commissioner in the following cases:
1. If a public authority refuses to inform the applicant whether it holds the requested information or whether it is otherwise accessible to it, refuses to allow insight in the document containing the requested information, refuses to issue or to submit to the applicant a copy of the document (depending on what has been requested), or fails to do so within the general statutory deadline of 15 days. It is a complaint against the so-called “silence” of authorities.
For exceptionally justified reasons, the deadline for response of a public authority may be 40 days from the date of filing of a request, it being understood that the authority must notify an applicant thereof immediately upon receipt of the request.
In case of information of importance for the protection of life or freedom of a person or threats to or protection of public health and the environment, the deadline for response of an authority is 48 hours.
An applicant will enclose with a complaint lodged with the Commissioner for “silence” of authorities a copy of the request filed to a public authority and evidence of its submission or sending. Such complaint can be lodged upon expiry of the statutory deadline for response of an authority of 15 days and if the applicant receives requested information in the meantime after lodging the complaint, he/she can withdraw the complaint lodged with the Commissioner.
2. A complaint can also be lodged with the Commissioner against a decision of a public authority denying an applicant’s request or against a conclusion rejecting his/her request from formal reasons. The deadline for lodging of a complaint in this case is 15 days from the date of submission of a decision or a conclusion to an applicant. An applicant must enclose with such complaint a copy of his/her request and a copy of the decision or conclusion of a public authority against which the complaint is lodged.
Filing charges with the Administrative Court
Complaints cannot be lodged with the Commissioner against decisions of the National Assembly, the President of the Republic of Serbia, the Government of the Republic of Serbia, the Supreme Court of Cassation of Serbia, the Constitutional Court and the Republic Public Prosecutor passed in a procedure of deciding on the right to access information or against failure of these authorities to act on a request. In such cases, judicial redress is ensured in administrative proceedings in the Administrative Court of Serbia and an applicant can file charges with the Administrative Court within 30 days of the date of submission of a decision.
An applicant can also file charges with the Administrative Court if one of the six public authorities listed above fails to act on a request within statutory deadline, it being understood that in such cases the Court requires that another formal condition under the Law on Administrative Proceedings be met, namely that the applicant resubmits the request to the authority concerned and the latter fails to reply within a further deadline of seven days upon repeated request.
An applicant can also file charges with the Administrative Court if he/she is not satisfied with the Commissioner’s decision passed following his/her complaint.
What Can I Request (How and From Whom)?
What can be requested?
The Law guarantees freedom of access to information of public importance to every person.
What is information of public importance?
It is information contained in documents held by any public authority, created during or relating to its operations and which the public has a justified interest to know. (Article 2 of the Law).
Freedom of access to information is therefore basically the right to access official documents.
When does justified interest of the public to know exist?
According to the Law, justified interest of the public to know exists with regard to any information held by public authorities. Thus there is a legal assumption in favour of an applicant that justified interest of the public to know exists and the applicant does not have to provide evidence he/she has interest in certain information or that his/her interest is justified, because this is assumed under the Law. A public authority must not demand of an applicant to specify a reason for filing a request.
If a public authority denies access to certain information, it must provide evidence that disclosure of such information to an applicant, i.e. to the public, could seriously violate some other overriding interest which is also legitimate, such as the interest of safety of the country or privacy of others.
As regards the so-called privileged information concerning threats to or protection of public health and the environment, a public authority does not have the right to try to demonstrate that the public does not have a justified interest to know such information.
How is the procedure initiated?
The procedure for exercise of this right is initiated by filing a request for free access to information of public importance to a public authority.
A request can be made in writing or verbally. A public authority may prescribe a model request form, but it must also take into consideration requests not filed on such form. Where information is requested verbally, a request is entered in a special record kept by an authorized officer of a public authority responsible for access to information.
An applicant states the following in a request:
- Name of the public authority concerned,
- His/her name, surname and address or address of a registered office if the applicant is a legal entity,
- Description of requested information, and
- Other details which facilitate search for the information.
From whom can information be requested?
Information can be requested from any public authority within the meaning of this Law which, to the applicant’s best knowledge, should hold such information, taking into account its sphere of competence. Public authorities are:
- All government authorities (e.g. the National Assembly, the Government, ministries, courts, public attorney’s office etc.)
- Territorial autonomy and local self-government authorities (e.g. the Provincial Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, provincial secretariats, mayors, municipality presidents, municipal administrative authorities etc.)
- All organizations vested with public powers (e.g. privatization agencies, telecommunication agencies, environment protection agencies etc., faculties and other institutions, public enterprises)
- Legal entities founded or financed completely or predominantly by the abovementioned authorities (e.g. institutions in the field of culture, health institutions, state funds etc.).
A list of public authorities is published on the Commissioner’s official website under the heading Public Authorities Catalogue.
