The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection received an official study visit from representatives of the Agency for Personal Data Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina - the Sector for Supervision Inspection, Complaints, and the Main Registry: Samira Čampar – Assistant Director, Radovan Kešelj – Head of the Department for Supervision Inspection and Complaints, Ismet Mehanović – Head of the Department for the Main Registry and IT, Begzada Avdukić, Emir Muratović, and Zdravko Logor – Inspection Supervision advisors, Vanja Pavlović and Marijana Sentić – Senior Associates for Complaints.

During the three-day visit, the representatives of the AZLP were presented with the most important parts of the Law on Personal Data Protection, a comparison between the LPDP and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the impact assessment of processing operations, the legitimate interest in personal data processing, the data protection officer, as well as some of the numerous innovations introduced by the current Law on Personal Data Protection. The representatives of the AZLP were acquainted with the practice and actions of the Supervision Sector of the Commissioner's Office, as well as the exercise of data subject rights. Also, the guests from Bosnia and Herzegovina were familiarized with how data can be transferred from the Republic of Serbia, and about misdemeanor liability in non-compliance cases with the LPDP. The presentations of the representatives of the Office of the Commissioner were accompanied by a constant active discussion and exchange of experiences, comparison of practices, and resolving doubts in individual cases regarding the ​​personal data protection field.

On the third day of the study visit, AZLP representatives attended, as special guests, the marking of the 20th jubilee since the adoption of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance and the 15th jubilee since the adoption of the Law on Personal Data Protection, held at the Metropol Hotel in Belgrade.

At the end of the study visit, it was concluded that the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection and the Agency for Personal Data Protection from Bosnia and Herzegovina will continue to exchange experiences and examples of good practice in the field of personal data protection, as well as to continue the previous good cooperation to mutual satisfaction, contributing to the increment of regional personal data protection cooperation.