The conference topics were the modernization of legislation for personal data protection in Europe and the cooperation with the EU in improving the national laws and practices in the area of data protection. During the two conference days, the participants discussed the work on modernizing of Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data and the Additional Protocol, about the EU Directive on Data Protection, and about efforts to develop new regulations for the protection of personal data in the EU and the risk assessments.

Representatives of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection presented the Improvement of Personal Data Protection project that the Commissioner is implementing with the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, financed from IPA funds for Serbia.

The implementation of the Improvement of Personal Data Protection project started in April 2012 (SR/2009/IB/JH/01TWL), the so-called Twinning Light, financed by the EU from IPA 2009 funds.