Source: Danas

The issue of new IDs will not start on 27 January, announces the Interior Minister Dragan Jocic

IDs without chips, after all

The issue of new IDs will not start on 27 January, announces Dragan Jocic

IDs without chips, after all

SABIC: A well-intentioned attempt at resolving, or at least eliminating serious issues regarding the content and the procedure passing the law    

Source: Politika

The Ministry of the Interior announced that the application of the new ID Act will not start in late January, as prescribed by the law, and that under the new Government regulation citizens' obligation to have IDs with electronic chips will be optional, i.e. only those who want it will have it.  The idea that the Government should intervene with a regulation and interfere with the content of the law may instigate serious criticisms from the aspect of formal and legal opportunities for its realization. I personally think that from the aspect of normal hierarchy of legal documents such an idea cannot take criticism, but I honestly do not wish to join those who want to do that. I think that the announced move of the Ministry of the Interior, at least for a while, is going to remove the burden of some dilemmas and calm many people down.     

Source: Blic

Rodoljub Sabic - Information Commissioner

The start of implementation of the new ID Act, which prescribes the use of personal identification documents equipped with electronic chips containing biometric personal data of the owner, could bring back all the criticisms that the law was exposed to at the time it was being passed. Those criticisms were numerous; they came from various entities and were based on unusually different arguments.

Source: Blic

Rodoljub Sabic, Information Commissioner

For the financing of the recently finished parliamentary election campaign, 323 million Dinars were provided from the Budget.  One fifth of this amount has already been distributed to all participants in the elections, and four fifths will be shared by the parties or coalitions that have managed to get in the Parliament, proportionately to the number of the mandates that have been won, to cover the real costs. For that kind of money, tax payers have the right to expect that many of the promises that were given will be kept.

Source: Blic

Rodoljub Sabic, Information Commissioner

For the financing of the recently finished parliamentary election campaign, 323 million Dinars were provided from the Budget.  One fifth of this amount has already been distributed to all participants in the elections, and four fifths will be shared by the parties or coalitions that have managed to get in the Parliament, proportionately to the number of the mandates that have been won, to cover the real costs.