NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN 56 In the past several years evident efforts were made regarding specific activities stipulated in the laws, to establish an obligation for the subjects which are deemed to perform those activities, to use information technology, and especially in respect to establishing of specific databases, storing of various records, registers, classified information and their protection, processing and usage of personal data, survey and cadastre data on immovable property, statistics data, performing swift money transfer services, electronic trading, and so forth. (Law on Classification of Information, Decree on Information Security and Classified Information, Law on Protection of Personal Data, Law on Ratification of the Convention for Protection of Persons in Respect to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, Law on Performing of Series of Swift Money Transfer, and the Book of Rules for keeping of the register of service providers for swift money transfers, Law on Trade, Consumer Protection Law, Law on Identification and Registration of Live-Stock, Company Law, Book of Rules on keeping of the Trade Register and of entering data into the Trade Register, and so forth). 2.7.2 Objectives The legislation, de lege ferenda, should create a legal framework that shall provide impetus for development and application of new technologies and services stemming from them. The legislation that regulates the information society is a very wide concept and addresses and influences all spheres of the society and of the legal system. The contents of the legislation depends on the objectives, the measures and the project activities defined in the projects on infrastructure, e-business, e-Government, e-education, e-health and e-citizens. It shall represent a legal framework for development of the information society. E-legislation shall be in compliance with, however it should also follow the trends of the UNICITRAL rules, WTO-TRIPS Agreement, the agreements and conventions administered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and the EU directives on ICT, e-business and intellectual property. E-legislation, de lege ferenda, can be grouped as: (1) legislation that should provide for institutional framework; (2) legislation that addresses the substantive law in specific areas; and (3) legislation that refers to the proceedings. It should provide for: • liberalisation of the market of electronic communication services; • prevention of the misuse of the monopoly position and limitation of competition; • establishing and implementation of standards and systems for digital records, for their management and storing; • establishing, development and usage of state and local databases (registers), mutual interconnection and exchange of information from the databases by the interested persons, the Government, the administrative bodies and the local self-Government; • forming of a Certification Agency, as the basis for usage of PKI; • employment of competent human resources, especially in the Government, in the administrative bodies, and in the local self-Government, providing their continuous education; • better and more efficient solutions for the administrative and court proceedings, simplification of the processes and cost reduction; • forming of research centres and technology transfer centres and their co-operation with renowned international centres; • changes in the education system; • development of the systems for distance learning, lifelong learning and flexible forms of learning for and of usage of ICT; • establishing and development of digital libraries in the education, science and culture; NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN