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In the course of February and March 2015, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection analyzed the information booklets of public enterprises and companies vested with public powers (which therefore constitute "public authorities" within the meaning of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance), which makes 24 entities in total.

Based on that, Commissioner has estimated compliance with the legal obligation to publish information booklets, which are to contain all the information provided for under the Law and the Instructions for the Preparation and Publication of Information Booklets, to be completely unsatisfactory, both in terms of quality of information published, and in terms of being-up-to date.

In this regard Commissioner has stated the following:

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Rodoljub Sabic, and the Protector of Citizens, Sasa Jankovic, pursuant to Article 9 of the Law on the Anti-Corruption Agency, have submitted to the President of the National Assembly, Maja Gojkovic, their joint proposal for the National Assembly to elect Vida Petrovic Skero as a member of the Anti-Corruption Agency Board.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection communicated to the National Assembly the Report on Implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the Law on Personal Data Protection for 2014. The Report was also communicated to the Serbian President, the Protector of Citizens and the Serbian Government and posted on the Commissioner's official website.

In that regard, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection on the occasion of several citizen complaints concerning the processing of personal data of pupils and other persons in the process of allocation of free textbooks, performed supervision over the implementation of the Law on Personal Data Protection in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development.