Source: Blic
Comments
Rodoljub Sabic Commissioner for Information
It is hard to understand that our country is the only one in Europe (apart from Montenegro) which does not have a law on secret data classification. But although we do not have a law on secrets, we have too many secrets. When instead of a modern law you have a confusing and contradictory conglomerate of several hundreds of anachronous regulations, it is not accidental but logical to give the confidential status to various information according to ambiguous, random and disputable criteria. And it is also logical that behind that confidentiality anything can be hidden, from stupidity and conservativism, through sluggishness and laziness to criminal actions and corruption.It is hard to understand that, in spite of warnings sent for several years to the expert public about multiple damages caused by the current situation, competent officials did not propose an adequate law after all. This is why, as the logical reaction to indolence of the government, the law on classification of secrets was created in the civil sector and proposed in the form of civil initiative to the Assembly recently.
It is hard to understand, but it appears that this proposal has unfortunately suffered the fate of some other civil initiatives and vanished. Since the current state suits only mystifiers and those who want to hide illegal operations and combinations , and is opposite to the interests of the state and an overwhelming majority of citizens, the civil proposal must not disappear. The only fair response of the competent bodies is either to accept it or to propose a better one without delay.
