The Network for the Affirmation of the Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) announced that it had received announcements from various parliamentary groups in the Assembly, that there is an undisputed majority in the Parliament that is willing to ensure the adoption of the amendments proposed by that NGO together with Action for Human Rights, Center for Civic Education and the Alternative Institute.
The amendments, as it is added, aim to prevent unfounded encroachment on the human rights of Montenegrin citizens by the ANB, which is contrary to the Constitution, the law, confirmed international conventions, the views of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
"The submitted amendments try to correct the deliberate construction errors of the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on the National Security Agency, which gives that institution the means to violate the human rights of all Montenegrin citizens without any restrictions and without the right to judicial protection. Thus, the submitted amendments provide that the ANB will not, without prior permission from the court and the possibility of control, be able to access the registers and data in the possession of all legal entities in Montenegro, nor will it be able to monitor and observe Montenegrin citizens without prior court approval. in the announcement of MANS.
It is added that with the submitted amendments elaborates the procedure for destroying the data collected by the ANB in its work, with the obligation to inform the court about the same, and to inform the person whose data was collected about the same.
"Amendments prescribe stronger internal control of ANB's work with the obligation that the inspector general of ANB submits reports on its work to the Government and Parliament, as well as strengthening the rights of deputies in the part of access to data in ANB's possession. Various MPs, representatives of different parliamentary clubs signed today our four sets of ten amendments in total, which were addressed to all parliamentary clubs, including Andrija Popović, Srđan Perić, Džavid Šabović, Branko Bošnjak, Dritan Abazović and Snežana Jonica. On the other hand, a significant number of deputies from the majority of parliamentary clubs expressed their willingness to support the amendments submitted by various deputies on behalf of four NGOs and thus incorporate them into the Law on ANB, so it is certain that the possibilities of abuse of human rights by ANB will be limited. ".
As stated in the announcement, the Parliament is obliged to accept all the submitted amendments, because only in that way will it ensure respect for the Constitution of Montenegro and all international conventions concerning human rights that our Parliament has ratified so far.
"For this reason, we call on all members of the Parliament of Montenegro to vote for the submitted amendments and not to allow the ANB to be able to violate the rights of citizens and access to various data concerning their lives, including health and material conditions and other important information, only so that she could later blackmail those same citizens and exert political pressure on them," the announcement concludes.
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