Commission for Information of Public Importance estimates that certain acts of the Draft of Law on Government, which is to be considered by the Parliament in the on-going session, are opposed to the democratic standards which are base for the Law on Free Access to the Information of Public Importance.

Especially focusing on the act of Article 39, section 2 of Draft of Law on Government which is known as "Exact papers and documents the Government and the authorities must submit to the Parliament only upon request of Inquiry board", Commission Rodoljub `abi has made the following statement:

"The aforementioned act is both questionable itself and from the point of view of established relations between the Government and the Parliament according to the constitution. Simultaneously, regarding the right to free access to public information the adoption of such an act would be a very bad message to the public.

Law on Free Access to the Information of Public Importance at least on principle guarantees the right to have an insight in every document that contains the information of public importance to both citizens and media. The obligations of the authorities including the Government and state administration authorities should be in correlation with this right.

If, in spite of that, the Government and state administration authorities consider that they do not have to enable insight in the exact documents, even to the supreme legal authority, except in certain cases, then it is clear that citizens and media do not have a chance to ask for that.

Adopting such an act would indirectly greatly abnegate the rights guaranteed by Law on Free Access to the Information of Public Importance, therefore, I expect from the members of Parliament to prevent it with the appropriate amendments to the Draft of the law.