Failure to access public documents these are municipalities that have been fined by AIP

Fushe-Kosovo, Gjilan and Shrpca are Kosovo municipalities to which the Agency for Information and Private (AIP) has pronounced fines this year for failing to provide access to public documents.

For the same reason, Pristina University and the Ministry of Infrastructure have been fined.

While two fines have been pronounced for failing to implement the personal data protection law.

Krenare Sogojevo-Dermaku, commissioner of the Agency for Information and Privateity, has told Online Economy that complaints have to do with denying access to public documents and in the field of personal data protection.

“In fact, the number of fines to date, in terms of access to public documents, is about 8 fines, 4 of them are against the municipality of Fushe-Kosovo, one is on Pristina University, respectively, the Faculty of Medicine, a fine is on the Shtrpce municipality, one is on the municipality of Gjilani, and the last fine is on the Ministry of Infrastructure”, Soeva indicated.

In addition, Sogojevo-Dermaku has said that the institution she runs has condemned a business and the Social Democrat Party this year for failing to implement the law on personal data protection. The latter has been fined in the case where in the government's courtyard, it unveiled the 2015 petition against the Association of Serb-run municipalities, with 205 thousand citizen signatures.

There are two fines pronounced this year for failing to implement the law on personal data protection or violation of the personal data protection law. One has been pronounced towards a business due to the failure to comply with the binding decision issued by the Agency, while the other is the very Social Democrat Party, which has been fined because of publishing large numbers of citizens' data. But to remember that the Agency last year has imposed four fines of such a different public institution”, she said.

As for the total number of complaints about this period of time are 243, where 257 have been closed, while the rest are under consideration.

“actually up to this day at the Agency on complaints against denial of access to public documents, respectively, in monitoring the law on access to public documents have been addressed in total 343 complaints, and another 257 complaints have been closed, and the other number are under consideration, also this year until today, in the dictatorship or in the field of personal data protection, 88 complaints have been filed, and some 43 have been closed, while 45 are under consideration:x1>, she said.

“Agentia, in addition to complaints, also has its mission in regular inspections regarding the law enforcement of personal data protection and through regular inspections, but even on the basis of complaints to date, 120 decisions have been issued that are published on the Agency's website”, she stated.

Sogojeeva-Dermaku has said complaints about access to official documents vary. The amendments according to it are mainly for the evaluation of commissions in the recruiting procedures due to discontent

“The options for access to public documents are different, starting with the recruiting procedures, mostly we have these commission assessments in the recruiting procedures because of the frustrations that can occur in these processes, and we have them for procurement processes, but other public documents that public institutions don't make public on their website or in which each citizen who wants access to it and requires to perform a job without restrictions, just complaints in public documents are basically to which self-initive documents to make a public one of them.