Public enterprises called on to supply pay details

Public enterprises have been ordered to provide the Parliamentary Executive Committee with salary information.

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Tuesday, 04.12.2007.

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Public enterprises have been ordered to provide the Parliamentary Executive Committee with salary information. The office of the Public Information Trustee Rodoljub Sabic has announced that, acting on a complaint from the Committee, the trustee has sent out the order to PTT, Putevi Srbije (Serbian Roads), Nikola Tesla Airport, RATEL, RTS, NIS, NIS Petrol and the Republic Water Administration. Public enterprises called on to supply pay details “Under the law, these rulings are binding and those they apply to, are obliged to act on them within the stated timeframe,“ said Sabic, hoping that the measures “would bring to an end these acts which, in their own way, are uniquely absurd.“ He reiterated that, “if needs be,“ the government was obliged to ensure the implementation of these rulings. The Parliamentary Executive Committee asked for the information on salaries from the government, specifically the Finance Ministry, and, not having received it, addressed the trustee who forwarded the requests on to the appropriate addresses. In a statement, Sabic stressed that, under the law, information of public interest was defined as information “possessed by the authorities, coming to light in the course of their work or connected to the work of a governmental body, contained in a certain document, relating to matters that the general public has a justified interest to know about.“ Under the same law, such information must be available to the public. Emphasizing that the matter concerned institutions financed by public funds, the trustee said it was absurd that one of the highest legislative working bodies had to ask for the assistance of a trustee to gain access to information that should be public knowledge. “In a democratic world, which we want to belong to, it’s unthinkable that such data can be withheld from the public. The public has the right to know about the salaries not just of the boards of state companies, but also many private companies as well,“ he underlined. Rodoljub Sabic (FoNet, archive)

Public enterprises called on to supply pay details

“Under the law, these rulings are binding and those they apply to, are obliged to act on them within the stated timeframe,“ said Šabić, hoping that the measures “would bring to an end these acts which, in their own way, are uniquely absurd.“

He reiterated that, “if needs be,“ the government was obliged to ensure the implementation of these rulings.

The Parliamentary Executive Committee asked for the information on salaries from the government, specifically the Finance Ministry, and, not having received it, addressed the trustee who forwarded the requests on to the appropriate addresses.

In a statement, Šabić stressed that, under the law, information of public interest was defined as information “possessed by the authorities, coming to light in the course of their work or connected to the work of a governmental body, contained in a certain document, relating to matters that the general public has a justified interest to know about.“

Under the same law, such information must be available to the public.

Emphasizing that the matter concerned institutions financed by public funds, the trustee said it was absurd that one of the highest legislative working bodies had to ask for the assistance of a trustee to gain access to information that should be public knowledge.

“In a democratic world, which we want to belong to, it’s unthinkable that such data can be withheld from the public. The public has the right to know about the salaries not just of the boards of state companies, but also many private companies as well,“ he underlined.

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