Board for Culture and Information of the  National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia has unanimously supported the Annual Report on Application of the Law on Free Access to Information of  Public Importance. The Board has also unanimously supported the proposal of the Commissioner for Information that the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia should elect Mrs.  Stanojla Mandic for Deputy Commissioner, who is currently serving as the Commissioner's Office Secretary.   

On that occasion, the Commissioner, Mr. Rodoljub Sabic has stated the  following:

I am specially  satisfied because the parent company  Board has adopted the evaluation that the most acute problem is regarding implementation of the law, lack of functioning of the supervising mechanism and of the mechanism regarding responsibility in relation to offences, and he pledged that the Government of Serbia undertakes necessary measures in that direction. Those  measures also include proposing changes of the Law in that way that the supervision, including the authorizations for initiating procedures on offences under the competence of the  Ministry of Culture, which is not able to  perform those functions, to transfer them under the authority of the Ministry  of State Administration and Local Self Government.

Supporting the proposal that Mrs. Stanojla Mandic should be elected for Deputy Commissioner, the  Board has also supported three criteria I used for orientation during proposing phase. Missis  Mandi possesses the qualities of good manager and organizer. Simultaneously, she is also the expert  for administrative law, especially administrative proceedings. It is understood that she also fulfills the third condition I considered important, condition of gender equality.

I expect that the National Assembly shall accept the attitudes of its Board for Culture and Informing, and so grant additional contribution to the application of the Law on Free Access to Information of  Public Importance.