On February 28, 2023, the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection held a lecture on the organization and work of the Commissioner's Office to participants of the short study program "Legal Data Protection and Access to Information" at the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac. This lecture aimed to familiarize the participants of the short study program with the organizational structure of the Commissioner, his competencies, regulations, and practice.
The lecture was held by accredited lecturers from the Commissioner's Office, Marin Cetinić and Aleksandra Lakićević.
On February 20, 2023, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection received a written decision of Corvus Pay d.o.o., based in Zagreb, Croatia, in which this company designates its representative for the Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection.
The representative of this company for the Republic of Serbia is the legal advisor Nataša Pepić, based in Belgrade, Viline Vode bb.
In accordance with the law, the Commissioner or another person may address this representative, besides/instead of this company, regarding all issues related to the processing of personal data, in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of this law.
Once again, the Commissioner appeals to other foreign companies that have the obligation to designate their representative in the Republic of Serbia, compliant with the Law on Personal Data Protection, to fulfill the same obligation and thus show awareness of the obligation to respect the rule of law and privacy of their users.
You can find here a list of all foreign companies that have designated their representative for the Republic of Serbia in accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection.
The importance of improving data processing inspection methods and methodology will contribute to the quality of work of the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, which was highlighted at the two-day training, organized as part of the project "Support for Strengthening Rule of Law in the Republic of Serbia" financed by the EU and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), whereas the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) is in charge for its implementation.
Milan Marinović, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, as well as Maja Vitaljić, a key GIZ expert, spoke about the importance of raising the quality and improving personal data processing, while Rosana Lemut Strle, EU expert on personal data protection, shared with the participants the EU experience on methods of planning and implementing training on the personal data processing. Sanja Unković, Deputy Commissioner - for personal data protection, spoke about the importance of improving the methods and methodology in the process of performing inspection supervision.
Special attention during the training was devoted to the preparation of the annual inspection supervision plan and its implementation based on violation reports, as well as the determination of goals, priorities, assessment, and reporting methods. Referring to the inspection supervision strategies and tools, methods of obtaining information, monitoring the inspection checklist, as well as checking information and data, the focus was put on key activities in the process of inspection supervision of personal data protection.
The importance of participation in the procedure, the imposition of measures to ensure compliance, but also the monitoring of the implementation of the ordered measures, greatly contributes to raising the capacity of all subjects in the personal data protection system, which, in a broader context, is also one of the goals of the training.