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Yesterday, Commissioner Milan Marinović and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković received students who will conduct a two-week internship with the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection. This is the eighth generation of students from the Environmental Law Clinic at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and the first students to apply for this internship through the Student Professional Practice in Public Administration Fair 2021/2022.

During the professional internship, students will have the opportunity to apply previous theoretical knowledge and acquire completely new skills for the profession they are studying for, and get acquainted with the working environment of this institution. On that occasion, the importance of education and professional development of students in these areas was pointed out. The current cooperation with the Faculty of Security Studies in Belgrade, in the form of a short program of studies for Managers in the field of Personal Data Protection, and with the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac, for future Managers for Access to Information and Personal Data Protection, was also specially emphasized.

A Cooperation Agreement was recently signed with the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad, and it is also planned to establish cooperation with other higher education institutions in Serbia.

In accordance with the obligations under the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance ("Official Gazette of the RS", No. 120/04, 54/07, 104/09, 36/10, and 105/21), the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection launched the Unified Information System of Information Booklet on its website www.poverenik.rs. Pursuant to the same law, in this system and in accordance with the Instructions for the creation and publication of Information Booklet on Public Authority Work ("Official Gazette of RS", No. 10/22), the Information Booklet is created in electronic and machine-readable form. The Commissioner has also compiled and published his own Information Booklet in the above-mentioned information system.

Today, Commissioner Milan Marinović met with representatives of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Media Analysts Marek Mracka and Dumitru Lazur, with whom he discussed the adopted amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance, the Commissioner's cooperation with the media, along with the upcoming election process in Serbia from the aspect of personal data protection.