1. PRESENTATION OF MONTENEGRO
Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Working Group for Chapter 10 – Information society and media
Bilateral screening: Chapter 10
PRESENTATION OF MONTENEGRO
Brussels, January 2013

2. PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION Chapter 10: INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MEDIA
Ivan Lazarević
Deputy Minister
Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunication
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3. Chapter 10: INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MEDIA
Content
Relevant Acquis
Legal framework in Montenegro
Improvements of Legislation
Responsibilities of the Agency for Personal Data Protection
HOMER
Future Activities
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4. Chapter 10: INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MEDIA
Relevant Acquis
Directive 2003/98/EC of the EP and Council on the re-use of public sector information
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5. Legal Framework in Montenegro
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Legal Framework in Montenegro
Constitution of Montenegro (Official Gazette of Montenegro, 01/07)
Article 51 Access to information
„Everyone shall have the right to access information held by the state authorities and organizations exercising public authority.
„The right to access to information may be limited if this is in the interest of: the protection of life; public health; morality and privacy; carrying of criminal proceedings; security and defense of Montenegro; foreign, monetary and economic policy.“
Law on Free Access to information (Official Gazette of Montenegro, 68/05, 73/10 and 40/11)
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6. Improvements of Legislation Chapter 10: INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MEDIA
Law on Free Access to information (Official Gazette of Montenegro 44/12)
Adopted on 9 August 2012,
Agency for Personal Data Protection decides on the appeal against a decision on a request for access to information.
Council of the Agency is obliged to decide on appeal in 15 days
Law enters into force on 18 February 2013
Duties of the authorities
Who are the authorities? (public authorities, administrations of local governments, local governments, institutions, etc.)
The obligation to submit briefs to the Agency (Article 42 of the Law)
Proactive approach to information (authority is obliged to publish information on the website - Article 12 of the Law)
Restriction of access to information (Article 14 of the Law)
Test of identification (Article 16 ZSPI)
The overwhelming public interest (Article 17 of the Law)
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7. Responsibilities of the Agency
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Responsibilities of the Agency
(Agency for personal data protection and the free access to information - from 18 February 2013)
Overseeing the legality of administrative acts which decides on requests for access to information and take measures prescribed by law;
Administrates information system for access to information;
Monitors the situation in the area of access to information;
Performs inspection supervision over the implementation of this Law in relation to the creation and updating of access to information, proactive disclosure and submission of documents and data for management information system to access information.
Submits requests for criminal proceedings for violations of the provisions of this Law relating to the creation and updating of access to information, proactive disclosure and submission of documents and data for management information system to access information. (Fine ranging from 500 to 20,000 euros in accordance with Article 47 of this Law)
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HOMER PROJECT
HOMER- Harmonising Open Data in the Mediterranean through better Access and Reuse of Public Sector Information (
Duration:
Lead Parner: Piedmont Region
Partners in Montenegro (University “Mediteran”, Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunication, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism)
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HOMER PROJECT
Main objective
to build a transitional initiative promoting the use of an ICT MED strategy towards a better access, re-use and exploitation of regional data belonging to some of the most strategic domains of the MED economy.
to promote a coordinated approach to stimulate accessibility and re-use of Public Sector Information owned by MED governments, in order to contribute to speed up data transparency and exchange between MED territories, by enhancing access to public information.
fully in line with EU policies promoting a wider re-use of PSI, considered a primary content resource for digital products and services in a transnational context.
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Specific objectives related to Montenegro
Dissemination and Raising of Awareness
Two main target groups:
private companies/business MED environment aiming at exploiting public digital heritage
public administrations not involved in the project and interested in re-using the PSI methodology and in being involved in the PSI MED Federation
Capitalisation
regional and public authorities involved will develop a MED PSI Federation among all the regional portals, aiming at sharing common data sets related to the Med areas
the Federation will ensure a long lasting sustainability and the possibility to exploit a huge number of datasets thanks to the federation’s benefit;
each region will develop an Implementation Plan reporting the long term strategy and the relevant funding mechanism (i.e: future ROPs under new Cohesion Policy objectives).
the partners will ensure relevant links with other running or future initiatives at regional/national and EU level on PSI related to specific subthemes or events.
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HOMER PROJECT
Improve access to public data and the participation of people in public policies (the core activity)
State of the art among the regions related to the PSI strategy and related to the development of OPEN DATA portals/ PSI Directive receipt;
Legal adjustment (i.e.: availability of national or region law enabling the re-use of data; licensing issues, etc.)
Technological adjustment (regional or national governments involved should work on data standardization, metadata issues and other technological aspects such as multilingual aspects).
PILOT a: regional contests targeting innovative entrepreneurial idea exploiting open data; PILOT b: a regional contest targeting innovative ideas stimulating e-participation actions
Development of regional/national OPEN DATA portal in Montenegro
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Future Activities
HOMER project – continuing on project implementation
Wider promotion of open data concept
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13. Thank you for your attention.
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