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Commissioner Milan Marinović and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković are participating in the regional conference “Euro-Mediterranean experiences in Access to Information” organized by the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the Commission on the Right of Access to Information of the Kingdom of Morocco (CDAI), to promote the norms and standards of the Council of Europe in the area of access to information of public importance.

After the introductory words of the host of the conference, Mr. Omar Seghrouchni, President of CDAI, Ms. Carmen Morte-Gomez, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Rabat, and Ms. Alina Tatarenko, Head of the Division for Cooperation on Freedom of Expression of the Council of Europe, at today’s panel “Mechanisms of access to information: case studies and exchange of experiences” in addition to the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, other participants were Mrs. Plamenka Bojčeva, Director of the Agency for the Protection of the Right to Access to Information of North Macedonia. Adnene Lassoued, President of the Access to Information Authority of the Republic of Tunisia, Ms. Cassandra Abou Ghazale, Judge of the State Council of the Lebanese Republic, Mr. Gonzalo Gómez de Villalobos, Head of the Appeals Office, Territorial Administration of the Kingdom of Spain, Mr. Ger Deering, Ombudsman and Information Commissioner of the Republic of Ireland, Mr. Nino Mindiashvili, representative of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, and Mr. Alberto Oliveira, President of the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents of the Portuguese Republic. The panel discussed recommendations and good practices for improving citizens’ rights and more efficient execution of the obligations of public authorities. As part of preparations for today’s event, the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner held a series of bilateral meetings with colleagues from European and African countries.

The Office of the Commissioner, in cooperation with the Chamber of Healthcare Institutions of Serbia, held five thematic trainings from both laws under the Commissioner's jurisdiction for employees of Healthcare Institutions in Serbia. In the period from April 8 to April 18, 2024, the Commissioner's Office accredited lecturers, Marko Milošević, Marin Cetinić, and Nataša Mirjanić, held training sessions at the Požarevac General Hospital for employees of Braničevo district healthcare institutions, in the Negotin Health Center for employees of Bor district healthcare institutions, in the Institute for Public Health "Timok" in Zaječar for employees of Zaječar district healthcare institutions, in the Institute for Emergency Medicine in Kragujevac for employees of Šumadija district healthcare institutions, and General Hospital Ćuprija for employees of Pomoravski district healthcare institutions.

The third training for the Ministry of Interior (MUP) employees, organized in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, was held on April 15, 2024, in the Novi Sad Police Department. The training was held by representatives of the Commissioner's Office Aleksandar Kocić Ranđelović, Marin Cetinić from the Sector for Education and Certification, and Ostoja Kalaba from the Commissioner's Novi Sad Office, together with the representative of the MUP Dragan Obradović.

The training was attended by 30 police chiefs and officers from the Novi Sad Police Department. The training went along with a long discussion and exchange of opinions, where numerous doubts faced by police officers in their daily work were resolved. The focus was mostly on erasing data from official records and the purpose of personal data processing in the field of internal affairs.

On Saturday, April 13, 2024, representatives of the Commissioner's Office, accredited lecturers Marina Grbić and Aleksandra Lakićević, held a lecture at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, to the students of the "Business Compliance" study program, on the topic of the application of the Law on Personal Data Protection.

The aforementioned study program is the result of cooperation between the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and the Association for Compliance in Business from Belgrade, to whose invitation the representatives of the Commissioner's Office responded and held this lecture.

Around 70 participants attended the lecture.