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During two weeks, from July 8-19, 2024, a group of students from the Faculty of Law of Union University had the opportunity to get acquainted with the work and organization of the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection. The participants were introduced to the organizational structure of this Office, where they had the opportunity to hear the experiences of employees from different sectors.Their professional practice began with lectures on the laws under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner for a better understanding of the actions of this authority. Also, they could see what the organization of online training looks like step by step, and participate in the simulation of the organization of a major event and uploading content to the Commissioner's website. In addition to the above, students were familiarized with the most important cases from the practice of inspection supervision. They were also shown the Unified Information System of Information Booklets and the data that can be found using this useful tool.

On July 18, 2024, Commissioner Milan Marinović met at the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Helsinki with Ambassador Mr. Aleksandar Janković. In an open and cordial conversation, the ambassador informed the Commissioner about his activities and plans to find opportunities for intensifying cooperation between the Republic of Finland and Serbia. For his part, the Commissioner informed the ambassador about the situation in the field of two human rights that the Commissioner protects: the right to personal data protection and the right to free access to information of public importance.

On July 5, 2024, representatives of the Commissioner's Office - Sector for Education and Certification, Aleksandar Kocić and Aleksandra Lakićević, held a training in the field of application of the Law on Personal Data Protection for employees of the company NTC program Novi Sad.

The training focused on resolving numerous doubts in applying the Law on Personal Data Protection that employees face in their daily work.

At the request of the University of Belgrade, representatives of the Commissioner's Office from the Sector for Education and Certification, Marko Milošević, Marin Cetinić, and Nemanja Damjanović, held two thematic training sessions on the application of the Law on Personal Data Protection. The trainings, held on July 3 and 4, 2024, were attended by 60 employees of the University's professional services, secretaries of the faculties that are part of the University of Belgrade (BU), and their appointed Data Protection Officers.

The main goal of the training was the better application of the law by higher education institutions members of BU with moving the emphasis and the following discussion from the legal basis of collecting medical documentation of students on dormant status, regulating the relationship between the Data Controller and the Processor when using different communication platforms in educational processes (Microsoft, Google), to the relationship of joint Data Controllers that arise when concluding agreements within the framework of international cooperation between BU, certain BU faculties and foreign universities.

The discussion, in which representatives of the Commissioner's Office, the University itself, and BU members participated resolved numerous doubts that BU representatives face in performing their daily work regarding the proper application of the Law on Personal Data Protection.