The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest and Personal Data Protection has initiated the oversight procedure regarding the implementation of the Personal Data Protection Act in the Belgrade Land Development Directorate.

The inducement for initiating the oversight procedure was the complaint of the Tenants' Assembly in the building in Karadjordjeva no. 36 in Belgrade, stating that the Directorate has announced and that it intends to implement the "list of tenants" and "surveying of apartments", in order to "determine the factual and actual status" without giving any explanation whatsoever, and without quoting the legal base, except for the abstract formulation "in order to implement the Belgrade on Water Project".

The Commissioner requested from the Directorate, to declare without delay the legal grounds and the purpose of such personal data processing, and after receiving the statement he shall decide upon further measures.

In relation to that, the Commissioner, Rodoljub Šabić also stated:

"Tenants of the building in Karadjordjeva 36 are upset due to the lack of relevant information, both regarding the "list of tenants" as well as regarding the possible inducement for such thing. Bearing in mind that in no context whatsoever building demolition has been mentioned, they experience the act of the Directorate as unnecessary and unpermitted harassment, and regarding the possible aspirations towards their apartments they point out to a set of questions pertaining to peaceful exercising of the tenure right and the property right, invoking the constitutional guarantees of the property right and several laws.

Majority of the questions which tenants of the building in Karadjordjeva 36 open, are not within the competence of the Commissioner, but they have unquestionable, general importance and deserve serious attention of the authorities. Speaking about the "list of tenants", the Commissioner reminds that according to the Personal Data Protection Act, basic, minimal conditions for permitted data processing are existence of the valid legal ground and clearly determined processing purpose. Because in the specific case neither one has been clear, the Directorate has been asked to explain that, if possible, without delay."