Photo: Dimitrije Nikolić/TanjugThe collapse of the Army is declared a secret, and those who accidentally or intentionally release some information to the public will be subject to the law. At the same time, what the Serbian Army will designate as "strictly confidential", based on the Dayton Agreement, is regularly referred to the military commands of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and NATO
The Directorate for Organization at the Ministry of Defense issued a Decision on the determination of secret data, those with an indication of secrecy internal use, which refers to the regulations on "determining the elements of the formation positions of officers and non-commissioned officers in the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Army and the elements of the formation positions of civilians serving in the Serbian Army", was published in the latest issue of the Official Military Gazette.
It is logical to ask why the secrecy of this, when the NATO Office in Belgrade, plus the defense ministries of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are informed in the preparation of every document on the subject, according to the provisions of the Dayton Agreement.
So what does that mean in practice? It is a pure abuse of the institute of secrecy and protection, abuse and concealment of responsibility for the situation in the defense system, which is more than bad.
In translation, that decree will refer to someone, for example an ensign, who eats in a tavern because he became an ensign of the first class and was appointed the head of a military warehouse. The guard on duty hears it and reports it "where it should be", so the ensign is called to account, because he betrayed the "secret".
Or a lieutenant who, in the company of friends, says that he was promoted and appointed to the position of captain, for someone there as a reference for something.
Stupid wording and even more bureaucratic explanations
In the explanation, it is stated that the aforementioned acts on the systematization of workplaces and training positions, that is, the data contained in them represent secret information. Accordingly, the secret data contained in the mentioned documents should not be available to the public because limiting their availability is more important than the interest in free access to information of public importance.
The documents mentioned in point 1 of this decision contain data that must be defined as secret, since they determine the names of formation places and the values of the jobs performed by professional members of the Serbian Armed Forces, that they are contained in each formation and that they represent a summary overview of the elements of formation places, and that by acquiring them, it would be possible to gain insight into the internal organizational structure of certain organizational units of the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Armed Forces.
Stupid wording and even more bureaucratic explanations.
It is interesting that one of the provisions of the famous decision is that the term of validity of classified documents internal use valid until December 31, 2033.
The paradox of Serbian strict confidentiality
And then comes an even worse thing - the decision of which label to use strictly confidential classify the data related to the peacetime filling of the defense system, the formational numerical status and the personnel status of the defense system. Nothing strange, every army keeps it as a secret - if it were not for the already mentioned provisions of the Dayton Agreement, according to which it must refer to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which means also to NATO, which makes the institute of secrecy redundant, except in front of the domestic public.
As explained, the mentioned documents contain secret information of interest to the Republic of Serbia, "since they may have implications for jeopardizing the operational and functional capabilities of the Serbian Armed Forces and other defense forces of the Republic of Serbia, and their disclosure to an unauthorized person would harm the security of the Republic of Serbia." .
"By publishing the decision in question in the Official Military Gazette, with the simultaneous determination of the degree of secrecy, it will be available only to relevant entities in the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Army, which will prevent the leakage of classified information," the decision reads.
According to the claims of those familiar with the regulations, the level of secrecy is decided by the Government of Serbia, i.e. its Office for the Protection of Data Secrecy (the same one that for many years did not allow Aleksandar Vulin as Minister of Defense to obtain a certificate for access to data marked with a level of secrecy).
On the other hand, the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Armed Forces announce a public competition to fill vacant formation positions in various units - which automatically breaks the secrecy mark. Because it states exactly how many places are missing in which units, including special ones. A competition is also announced for thousands of special forces to fill the 63rd Parachute and 72nd Special Brigades, as well as the Military Police Detachment for Special Purposes "Cobra" and then state officials say publicly how many have been hired.
What is it then, but the disclosure of a military secret?
If this regulation were to be strictly applied, and it would enter into force on the eighth day after its publication in the Official Gazette, then the Minister of Defense Miloš Vučević and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, as the "General Commander of the Serbian Armed Forces", would have to found on the attack of the law.
Declaring the collapse of the army a secret
There is one other thing. Just as because of the "malicious" journalists who read the "Official Gazette" and follow the outflow of personnel from the Army, that newspaper after more than 150 years of existence was declared military secret in the concerned part personal rešlearning, the new regulation will also make it impossible for the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data to, at someone's request, issue a decision according to which some data should be delivered to an individual or non-governmental organization.
The same applies to the request of the Protector of Citizens.
In short - the collapse of the Army is declared a secret, and those who accidentally or intentionally release some information to the public will be subject to the law.
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