At the Ninth Special Sitting in the Twelfth Convocation, held on December 29, 2021, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted a conclusion on the review of the Report on the work of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection for 2020 submitted by the Commissioner to the National Assembly Of the Republic of Serbia on March 22, 2021.
Today, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection and Propulsion at the "Leaders of Responsible and Honorable Business" meeting, within the New Literacy Program, which they are implementing in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The organization of the meeting was also supported by the Corporate Compliance Association.
The goal of the cooperation is the development and improvement of media and digital literacy, as well as the business entities' responsibility in creating a safer business environment, both for the economy and for citizens.
Commissioner Marinović thanked the organizers who recognized the institution of the Commissioner as one of the important actors in the development of digital literacy and expressed their readiness to support his work through the "New Literacy" program.
On the occasion of the discussion that took place on HAPPY television in the show " Добро јутро Србијо /Good morning Serbia" on November 11, 2021, in which Dragan J. Vučićević, the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "Informer" was a guest, which referred to the regular supervision, performed on November 10, 2021, by the authorized persons of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (hereinafter: the Commissioner) over the application of the Law on Personal Data Protection (hereinafter: LPDP) by the controller or supervised entity, whose one of the activities is the online sale of wine, and “questioning” the competence of the Commissioner with the text published on the "Informer" official site entitled "Special War against Vučić! Inspectors supervised the wine shop where the president's son Danilo works! "аnd in the daily newspaper "Informer" entitled "Commissioner persecutes Danilo?! ", the commissioner gave the following statement:
The 2020 Initiative meeting highlighted the necessity of the existence of independent and autonomous state bodies as well as ;the ensuring of their uninterrupted work.
The second regional conference of the 2020 Initiative, an association that brings together independent bodies from the countries of the region engaged in the protection of the right to access information of public importance, was held in Bled, Slovenia, from October 3 to 5, 2021. The main purpose of the association is mutual cooperation, exchange of experiences and good practices, as well as the promotion and protection of the right to access information.
