The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance states that it is very important that the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia puts on its order and passes the necessary changes to the Law on Public Information without delay.

It is especially important to intervene in the Article 101 of the existing Law. This article states the due date after which the printed publications financed from public income are to cease their work. With reference to this the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic made the following announcement: 

«The existing Law on Public Information, which was passed two years ago, in order to realize good, democratic idea that media should be separated from the government, stipulates relevant transitory period of 2 years. Within this period the printed media founded by the republic, province, city, municipality, that is, an institution or a company financed from public income, should be privatized or cease their work.

This period will be over within a little more than two weeks, and almost nothing was done about privatization of public media. At the same time the due date was not exceeded, this matter was not even on the order of the ongoing cession of the Parliament.

The occurrence of the legal consequence threatens with disorder in legal system, existential drama for the employed in public media and serious endangerment of information system, especially on local level.

These occurrences could not be harmonized with the need to create an atmosphere in which it is possible to enhance citizens' rights to free access to information and raise the level of information in the society. Therefore the Parliament should prevent them from happening.