In Ljubljana, DCAF (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces) organized a five-day seminar and exchange of experiences on effective oversight systems of security and intelligence agencies in the Western Balkan countries and individual Western European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway). In addition to discussing positive and negative experiences in each participating country, the primary goal was to provide members of the Kosovo Parliament with the widest possible insight into the issue so that they could create their own model of effective oversight. Their delegation was therefore, of course, the largest. In addition to the members of the Agency Oversight Committee, the Chair of the Committee on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Missing Persons and Petitions, the Chair of the Committee on Rights, Interests of Communities and Returns, the Director General of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, the Auditor General, and several employees of the Parliament and various state institutions arrived from Kosovo.
The hosts presented their surveillance system and allowed the participants to visit important institutions – the Ministry of the Interior, the Parliament and the Security and Intelligence Agency SOVA itself. Presentations were given by Pavel Gantar, former President of the Parliament of Slovenia, Andrej Rupnik, former Director of SOVA-eJurij Ferme, Director of the Police Criminal Investigation Department, Igor Šoltes, President of the Court of Auditors of Slovenia and several members of parliament.
Razmjena iskustava pokazala je kako svaka zemlja mora osmisliti mehanizme primjerene vlastitom kontekstu, ali je svugdje jedino važno da se ustanovljenom tijelu omogući neometan rad i nadziranje bez uplitanja denvnopolitičkih partikularnih interesa. Postojeći i predstavljeni modeli (Nizozemska, Norveška, Belgija, Hrvatska, Slovenija) pokazuju različitost načina uspostave i funkcioniranja samih agencija i neovisnih tijela nadzora, ali bi svima trebalo biti zajedničko da vrlo ozbiljno shvaćaju svoj posao, da pri nadzoru nema stranačkih nadmetanja i “prepucavanja” te da parlamenti vrlo ozbiljno razmatraju njihova godišnja izvješća. Posebno se razgovaralo o nadzoru telekomunikacija i financijskog poslovanja agencija. Unatoč potrebi za čuvanjem nekih podataka kao vrlo tajnih (imena agenata/ica i operacija), važno je kvalitetno nadzirati kako se i na što zapravo troše proračunska sredstva.
With the unstoppable development of information and telecommunications technologies, the work of supervision is becoming more and more complex, and in fact all existing supervisors had to admit that they certainly do not have and will never have insight into everything that happens in their countries regarding security-intelligence activities, but supervision is necessary because it still limits the power of agencies that, through their actions, very often actually enter the area of violations of fundamental human rights. Although they are legally allowed to do so, strict care should be taken to ensure that they do not exceed the limits of their authority as little as possible.
I na čelnim pozicijama u sigurnosno-obavještajnom sustavu i u nadzornim tijelima jako je malo žena jer se još uvijek tradicionalno misli kako je sigurnosno-obavještajni rad muški zadatak i dio muške “prirode”, ali se i DCAF emancipira pa već drugi put inzistira na dolasku i izlaganjima Sanje Sarnavke, predsjednice Upravnog odbora Kuće ljudskih prava i članice Vijeća za građanski nadzor sigurnosno-obavještajnih agencija koja je predstavila sustav nadzora u Hrvatskoj i zakonske ovlasti tijela kojega je članica.
The meetings continue.
