Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006

Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006it is specially filed, and the deadlines are the same as for a written request 255 .If the submitted request contains any irregularities, the public authoritybody is obliged to teach the submitter how to remove those irregularities 256 ,for which action the submitter has fifteen days 257 .The Initiative had submitted 747 requests in the year 2006, and 378 publicauthority bodies were tested.Actions before the public authority bodiesFirst of all it should be pointed out that the submission of a requestrepresents the starting of an administrative action before the first-degreeadministrative organ. After receiving the request, the organ of publicauthority is obliged to notify the submitter of the request on the possessionof the information in fifteen days, and to provide insight and issue or senda copy of the document 258 . A request which refers to the informationof significance for the protection of life or freedom of a person, or theendangerment or protection of health of the population or the environmentmust be replied to in 48 hours 259 . If a public authority body is not able toinform the submitter of the possession of the requested information fora good reason, they can determine a deadline which should not be longerthan 40 days 260 . In any case, the public authority body must, on the basis ofa written request, reach a decision with a written explanation and a note onthe legal cure 261 .The practice in the implementation of this law has shown that the mostfrequent reaction of the state organs on the submitted request is theso-called “silence of the management” 262 . It also happens that an organof public authority asks that the requested information be stated moreprecisely, and in a number of cases, which have caused the most controversy,as a reason for denying access to information, the legal regulations whichregulate the conditions for the denial or limitation of this right on a255 Ibid, Article 15, Paragraph 7256 Ibid, Article 15 Paragraph 5257 Ibid, Article 15 Paragraph 6258 Ibid, Article, 16 Paragraph 1259 Ibid, Article, 16 Paragraph 2260 Ibid, Article, 16 Paragraph 3261 Ibid, Article, 16 Paragraph 10262 Silence of the management (silence of the administration) is a special institution of the administrative rightin cases when the authorized organ does not reach a solution on the petitioned request in the period predicted bythe law, Legal Encyclopedia, Savremena administracija, Belgrade, 1985, page 20366