PRECEDENT Rodoljub Sabic, Information Commissioner
A few months ago, the Montenegrin Administrative Court, acting on the complaint of the NGO Affirmation Network (MANS) annulled the resolution of the National Security Agency (ANB) on rejecting the request to make public the information about the number of tapped persons in 2005. Serbian public may find it interesting that in the court proceedings MANS referred to the fact that in an identical situation, the Serbian Information Commissioner ordered that the information should be given to the claimant and that the Serbian Supreme Court rejected BIA's complaint against the resolution.
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With reference to the text “Further Examinations Prolongue the Process”
Mysterious receipt
I have no intention to get myself involved in the public debate with Milovan Bozovic, District Public Prosecutor in Belgrade. However, considering that he mentions The Commissioner's name and the Commissioner's Bureau and expresses his legal opinions that may be relevant in the application of the Free Access to Information Act, all in a context flooded with misleading information, it is simply my duty to react.
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No one gets punished when the state witholds the information
Rodoljub Sabic on his experiences as the Information Commissioner
Although the number of people seeking the protection of the Commissioner is constantly growing, Serbian Government failed to administer his resolution.
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Dear Mr Sabic, We are writing with a wish to express our gratitude and praise for your work and the work of your assistants, especially Ms Gordana Sunjevaric and Ms Natalija Cetkovic. We would particularly like to emphasise that we are aware of the importance of the new Free Access to Information of Public Importance Act, your hard work in the application of this law and selfless help that you have given us, Serbian citizens, as we are the ones having to deal with harassment at the windows of government agencies on daily basis.
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Serbia has “celebrated” two years since the National Parliament for the first time in its history appointed the first Information Commissioner and joined the league of modern democratic countries. Analysing the results achieved in this period, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic, talking to the daily Novosti, says that it is not exactly his place to evaluate his own work.
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