07. 09. 2005

HOW MUCH FOR INFORMATION?

BELGRADE, September 7, 2005 - Serbian Public Information Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic requested once more from the Government to produce the expense regulation. Sabic requested that the Government regulate the method of balancing the expenses for making the copies of documents issued on the request of citizens and media. "It is the operationalisation of the Law on Free access to Information, which says that the copies of documents containing the requested information should be issued with the commitment of the applicant to pay for the necessary expenses for producing the document and that the Government should regulate the list of expenditures", the statement says. The statement added that the same initiative was sent to the Government by Sabic as early as in mid-March, and that the registered cases from whom the payments were collected were way beyond the level of necessary expenses.