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On December 7, 2022, the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, and representatives of the Cabinet, as well as the Head of the Reporting Department in the Commissioner's Office were on an official visit to the city of Valjevo, where they held a meeting with the mayor and his associates. As part of the visit and in the formal hall of the Valjevo Gymnasium, Commissioner Milan Marinović gave a lecture to the representatives of the authorities on the topic "Amendment to the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance", and the Head of the Reporting department, Mirela Zozi Jeković, gave a lecture on the topic "Publication of Information Booklets on the work of public authorities and submission of annual reports on activities under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance".

Representatives of the Office of the Commissioner, acting Assistant Secretary General, Head of the Sector for Supervision Marko Antić, and Senior Advisor in the Cabinet of the Commissioner Dragoslav Đukić are attending the 70th meeting of the International Working Group on Data Protection known as the "Berlin Group", which will be held in London on November 29 and 30, 2022.
At the meeting, independent international experts, representatives of the UK Information Commissioner's Office, and the European Data Protection Supervisor will present the latest updates on personal data protection in the field of facial recognition technology, smart cities, and telemetry.

On November 26, 2022, the commissioner attended the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Judges' and Prosecutors' Association of Serbia and the Association of Judges and Prosecutors' Assistants of Serbia, held at the Home of the Army of Serbia in Belgrade. On that occasion, the Commissioner was awarded for his exceptional contribution to improving the rule of law and judicial professions.

On 18 November 2022, accredited lecturers of the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Marina Grbić and Aleksandra Lakićević held training in the field of application of the Personal Data Protection Law for representatives of health institutions from the territory of the City of Novi Sad (and other municipalities of the Južni Banat District). The one-day training was held in cooperation with the Clinical Center of Vojvodina staff, who provided the amphitheater of the Medical Rehabilitation Clinic for the occasion.

The training was attended by representatives of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina, the Institute for Health Care of Children and Youth of Vojvodina, the Dentistry Clinic of Vojvodina, the Institute for Rheumatic Diseases of Vojvodina, representatives of all three institutes in Sremska Kamenica, the Novi Sad Health Center, the Institute for Emergency Medical Care Novi Sad, the Institute for Student Health Care Novi Sad, representatives of health centers from Bečej, Temerin, Beočin, Žabalj, Bački Petrovac, and the City Health Administration.