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The meeting ''Protection of Whistleblowers'' shall be organized by the Council of Europe 29-30 May, in Strasbourg, with the aim to promote the protection of whistleblowers and work on the Council of Europe Recommendation on the protection of whistleblowers in Member States. The meeting shall gather representatives of key stakeholders in the field of protection of whistleblowers.

Nevena Ruzic, Assistant Secretary General of the Commissioner's Office, shall participate at the meeting as the Commissioner's representative and the member of the Bureau of the Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe Convention 108. She will speak about the international conference ''Protection of Whistleblowers'' organized by the Commissioner on 23-24 May 2013, in Belgrade and about the work on the improvement of the Recommendation on Processing of Personal Data Used for Employment Purposes.

All participation costs shall be borne by the Council of Europe.

A representative of the Commissioner will be addressing today, on 20 March, the international conference "Online Privacy: Consenting to your Future", which will be held 20-21 March in Malta. Ms Nevena Ruzic, Assistant Secretary General at the Commissioner's Office, is participating in the conference on behalf of the Commissioner and the Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data.  The international conference "Online Privacy: Consenting to your Future" is organized under the project "Consent" financed by the European Union, addressing the privacy issues of consumers/users in user generated content services in digital economy. The conference gathers a hundred experts in the field of online privacy in various professions and various stakeholders: the European Commission representatives, the European Data Protection Supervisor, the Council of Europe, universities, international citizens' associations, public authorities responsible for data protection or high technology crime, as well as the private sector. In addition to panel discussions, a number of representatives have been invited to address the meeting individually.

A representative of the Commissioner will be addressing today, on 11 March, the international conference titled "Whistleblowing for Change" organized by the Transparency International and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Berlin.

For the purposes of celebrating the 28th of January as the Personal Data Protection Day, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection held a public conference during which he spoke about the main challenges in the field of personal data protection and the work of the Commissioner. The video of the conference is available at  http://www.mc.rs/dan-zastite-podataka-o-licnosti.4.html?eventId=8841#videos.