Journalist's response to EPCG and CEDISA's reaction: Your directors' salaries in 2025 are a secret

The managements of EPCG and CEDIS are trying to conceal the fact through transparent manipulation that at this moment the salaries of the executive directors of these two state-owned companies in 2025 are not known to the public and that despite the request for access to information of public importance (SPI), these state-owned companies are trying to conceal such information for unknown reasons.

Rather brazenly, they refer to the obligation of public officials to submit reports on assets and income that are publicly available on the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. EPCG AND CEDIS. trying to mislead readers and disputing the professionalism, but also the good intentions of Vijesti journalists.

It is common knowledge that public officials submit reports on their assets and income for the previous year by March 31 of the current year. In this regard, the personal income of the executive directors of EPCG and CEDIS is known to the public, but for 2024. However, a journalist from "Vijesti" requested data on the salaries of the directors of these state-owned companies for the period from January to June 2025. You rejected such requests, not on the grounds, as you pound your truthful chest in your responses, that this data is available to the public, but on the grounds that "the requested information relates to a natural person, i.e. contains personal data" and that it represents "information created for the purpose of regulating the employment relationship between the employer and the employee and can be used exclusively for those purposes". Referring to the Constitution, the Law on the Protection of Personal Data and the Labor Law, you concluded in CEDIS that the data on the executive director's income "was created for the purpose of regulating the employment relationship between the employer and the employee and can be used exclusively for those purposes".

EPCG also explained that publishing the requested information without the consent of the persons to whom it relates could "cause a violation of regulations and the initiation of legal proceedings against EPCG by those persons."

After all, MANS has already initiated proceedings before the competent institution, so it will be officially determined and shown who is right and who tried to deceive the public.

Vukašin Obradović