Friday, 22 October 2021

25th Sitting of the European Integration Committee

At the sitting held on 22 October 2021, the members of the European Integration Committee considered the Bill amending and modifying the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, submitted by the Government, in principle.


The Bill was presented by Sanja Putnik, Assistant Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, who listed the innovations to be introduced by the amendments to the existing Law, such as improving the transparency of work, expanded circle of persons whose status as the authorities obliged to act according to the Law, the Commissioner's authority to issue a misdemeanour warrant against the person charged with failure to act if such a complaint against said person is ruled to be founded. The procedure for the election of the Commissioner has been improved and the Commissioner’s term of office has been limited to eight years with no option for re-election.

Following the presentation, the Committee unanimously accepted Bill amending and modifying the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, in principle.

The Committee went on to selected a delegation to take part in the 66th plenary meeting of the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC), to be held under the auspices of the parliamentary dimension of Slovenia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 29 and 30 November 2021, in videoconference format, as follows: Elvira Kovacs, Dusica Stojkovic and Nemanja Joksimovic.

The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairperson Elvira Kovacs, and attended by the following Committee members and deputy members: Dubravka Filipovski, Viktor Jevtovic, Ana Miljanic, Stanislava Janosevic, Ilija Matejic, Dr Muamer Bacevac, Predrag Rajic and Vesna Markovic.





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  • 11.00 - sitting of the of the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development and the Information Society (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 11.00 - judges elected to judicial office for the first time take the oath of office before the National Assembly Speaker (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)

  • 11.30 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Ukrainian Ambassador (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street)

  • 12.00 - opening of the exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of Mileva Maric Einstein (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 12.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 13.00 - sitting of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 17.00 - sitting of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 17.05 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker at the AEPA Association if Lawyers Conference: NO MORE SILENCE – ME AGAIN (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)

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