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The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection ended the procedure of written supervision over the implementation of the Law on Personal Data Protection (LPDP) at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and conducted direct supervision of the Police Directorate launched after Kikinda Police Department requested from the hospital in this city to provide data on citizens who are treated on the basis of the “F” health code.

The statement requested and received by the Commissioner from the MoI, states that the commander of the police department in Kikinda, during control activities of updating dossiers of the sector, requested these data from Kikinda General Hospital, in accordance with the Instruction on the method of organizing and conducting the internal affairs on security sector, where he disregarded the provisions of the Law on Personal Data Protection, and failed to inform the immediate superiors about it, neither received approval from them. It also states that disciplinary proceedings against him will be initiated, and that the case is an exception, and there were no such activities in other police departments.

THE COMMISSIONER FOR INFORMATION OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION SENDS A LETTER TO PRESIDENTS OF JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA, INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA, INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATION OF VOJVODINA, ON THE OCCASION OF TOMMOROW’S WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY (3 МАY)

“On the occasion of 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, I send my congratulations and best wishes for success in personal and professional level to you and all the members of your association.

I'm sure we share the views regarding the necessity of achieving goals such as full transparency of media ownership, availability of the public to all information on financing the media from public sources, fighting mechanisms that lead to self-censorship, hindering increasing tabloidization not only the media but also the public sphere as a whole, as well as “leakage” from public institutions of various “confidential” information, on a discriminatory basis, to certain media.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection delivered to the Government of Serbia a request to ensure, in accordance with law, execution of the Commissioner’s ruling ordering the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade to provide journalist of “Tango Six” insight into records of the pre-trial procedure conducted after the crash of a helicopter of the Army of Serbia in March 2015, when seven people lost their lives, after which the prosecution made the decision not to prosecute.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection addressing concerns of citizens and media reports on the problem of disposal of potentially hazardous waste from Zelezara Smederevo in villages near the factory, estimates that the competent authorities should provide the citizens, that is the public, with all relevant information, proactively, without delay and particularly without causing a need for possible intervention of the Commissioner.