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Although both Yugoslav and Serbian constitutions prescribe transparency in the work of state institutions, existing legal provisions included in various laws at both federal and republic levels, are either not sufficiently explicit or, do not deal with the issue at all. Hence, it was not possible to measure the legal response time, as was our original intention. On the other hand, we asked representatives of various institutions what was the legal deadline for responding to public requests and inquiries.
There was no unified response: “we are in no obligation to respond" or, “we are not certain what the legal deadline is, but in practice, we reply within 60 days.” - says the analysis of an interesting experiment the results of which we can find in the bilingual publication “Promoting the Right of Access to Public Information,” the result of work on the project: “Accountability through Transparency: Promoting the Right of Access to Public Information in FR Yugoslavia and Romania.”
This project was conducted by the Belgrade-based Centar za proucavanje alternativa/Center for Policy Studies (CPA/CPS), in cooperation with the national branch of the international NGO Transparency International Romania, in the period May and August 2001. In addition to this publication, the project also led to the production of: “Information Booklet for Citizens - How to Reach Public Information?” , as well as a poster and flyer with the slogan "Information is Not a Privilege". In addition, an experiment was conducted and its results are presented in the Appendix to this publication.
Hereby we present you the Appendix with the experiment results of a most interesting and useful CPA/CPS study.
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