The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has completed oversight over the implementation and enforcement of the Law on Personal Data Protection by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia initiated upon the request of a group of employees within the National Assembly.

The Commissioner was requested to take necessary action, i.e. verify the allegations contained the text in circulation in the media “that an unauthorized person entered the Human Resources Office in August 2017 and took photocopies of the files of the majority of employees.”

In order to properly and completely determine the facts, the persons authorized by the Commissioner requested to examine and examined all the necessary documentation and took oral statements from the competent officers in the National Assembly, which of records were compiled.

The facts established during the oversight did not confirm that the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia carried out illegitimate processing of personal data. The data processing, which the allegations in the media might potentially refer to, was carried out by the authorized person having the internal auditor of the National Assembly status, in accordance with relevant regulations, in the premises of the National Assembly.

Due to large media interest, the Commissioner published the record of the conducted oversight procedure, which contains all the relevant facts, on his website. Some journalists and media have asked the Commissioner to state his position on some other issues related to the disrupted relationships in the Assembly culminating in the open conflict of leaders in the Assembly during the live broadcast by RTS. The Commissioner would like to highlight that these are the issues falling within the competence of other authorities or the National Assembly itself.