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On the 25th of January 2013, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection spoke at the seminar for NGOs and the media "The Protection of Whistleblowers" held in Uzice.

In a fruitful discussion with the representatives of the media and the NGO sector, the Commissioner emphasized the need for engagement of all available resources of the state and the society as a whole when it comes to the fight against corruption.

In the period from April to December 2012, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection conducted the EU-funded Twinning Light "Improving Personal Data Protection in Serbia" project in cooperation with EU experts, the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia and his associates.

One of the important results of the project is the analysis of the degree of harmonization of the Law on Personal Data Protection with relevant EU legislation and standards. Today, the Commissioner forwarded to the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Justice and State Administration an Information which contains suggestions for amending the Law on Personal Data Protection with the purpose of harmonizing it with EU standards. The Commissioner asked the authorities to start the work on the amendments to the Law on Personal Data Protection immediately, as well as to pass relevant by-laws, the adoption of which is unexplainably late.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following:

During the month of December, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection conducted inspections in a great number of municipalities, metropolitan municipalities and metropolitan administrations that did not create the register of personal data protection compilations and entered those compilations in the Main Register as mandated by law.

In Commissioner's regard, the results of inspections are very worrying and confirm his belief that the state of affairs in the field of personal data protection is unsatisfactory, the belief he stated many times before.

This in mind, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic stated the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has participated at the round table ''Whistleblower Protection'' organized under the Project of Modeling of the Whistleblower Protection Law in Novi Pazar today. In his conversation with the representatives of the media and NGOs the Commissioner has stressed the need to employ all available resources, of both the state and the society, to the maximum extent in the fight against corruption.