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Yesterday, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, in cooperation with the Government Accountability Initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), organized an online Forum on Free Access to Information of Public Importance - "Availability of Information from Public Prosecutions and Judicial Proceedings". in order to point out the importance of transparent work of courts and prosecutor's offices. The aim of the Forum is to explain in more detail what the general public rights are regarding this type of proceedings, what information in judicial proceedings are accessible/not accessible to citizens under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance.

 "This day is marked in anticipation of the adoption of the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, which should lead to easier, greater and more efficient exercise of this right," said Commissioner Milan Marinovic on the occasion of the International Right to Know Day.

By adopting these amendments to the law, the institution of the Commissioner would have the right to request from any authority in Serbia access to information and request the submission of all documents which would determine if there were any violations. Also, the "administrative silence " on the submitted request for free access to information of public importance would be sanctioned by the Commissioner by imposing a fixed amount fine.

Commissioner Milan Marinovic and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unkovic met today with the delegation of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. This is the first official visit of the new Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Jan Bratu to the Commissioner’s Office.