Submission of Annual Reports of Public Authorities
The Commissioner once again reminds all public authorities that they are obliged to submit to the Commissioner an Annual Report for 2023 by January 31, 2024, regarding the actions taken to implement the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance.
Also, the Commissioner specifically reminds the temporary authorities, which currently exercise the powers of public authorities and that are about to be constituted due to the held elections, to submit the said reports for those authorities.
In the case that the authority fails to submit an Annual Report to the Commissioner, the Commissioner is authorized to submit a request for the initiation of misdemeanor proceedings against the head of that authority.
The Commissioner invites all authorities to fulfill their legal obligations promptly through the Portal for submitting annual reports of public authorities, at the web address: https://izvestaji.poverenik.rs.
On December 18, 2023, Commissioner Milan Marinović met with representatives of the SHARE Foundation, Danilo Krivokapić and Andrej Petrovski, with whom he discussed current topics in the field of personal data protection. On that occasion, representatives of the SHARE Foundation presented the Commissioner and his associates copies of the publication Beyond the Face: Biometrics and Society. This study of the social consequences of mass biometric surveillance contains a detailed description of the technologies by various manufacturers that are being used for surveillance by public and private actors; including a comparative analysis of the regulations governing this area in the USA, the EU, and some countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; as well as some cases of practical application of biometric surveillance.
