The Parliament of Montenegro adopted today the amendments to the Law on the National Security Agency (ANB), which provide that in the future the secret service will have the right to collect evidence by installing hidden cameras in suspicious apartments. The Parliament accepted the Socialist People's Party amendment, which provides that ANB must request permission to wiretap and record apartments from the judicial panel, not the president of the Supreme Court. Director of ANB Vladan Joković said earlier that the proposed measures of secret surveillance do not differ from those applied by similar services in Europe. The adopted amendments to the law prescribe that an ANB employee cannot, in addition to the Montenegrin one, have another citizenship. The adopted amendments provide that ANB employees will be at the service of postal and electronic communications operators, as well as employees in state institutions. The law also defines in what situation ANB employees can use weapons. Penalties are also foreseen for officials who work outside the Agency, as well as those whose behavior harms the reputation of ANB. The adopted changes provide that ANB will be in charge of intelligence and counterintelligence operations in the field of defense, as well as for collecting data on potential threats to the economic interests of Montenegro. The agency is obliged to regularly inform the president of the state and the parliament, as well as the prime minister, about activities directed against the independence, sovereignty, security and constitutional order of Montenegro. Members of the Council have the right to be informed about intelligence data in the field of defense for Defense and Security, Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Montenegro.
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