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On March 12, 2024, representatives of the Commissioner's Office, Marko Milošević, and Marin Cetinić held a hybrid training on the application of the Personal Data Protection Law. Interested persons who applied for this training could follow it through an online webinar. On the other side, the students who attend professional practice at the Commissioner, and new employees in the Office of the Commissioner, were introduced to the content from this field in person. With this approach about thirty persons were included in the training.

The lecturers introduced the participants to the concept of personal data processing and the application of data protection measures. To bring the matter closer to the participants, lecturers presented examples from the Commissioner's practice, where the most common daily work errors and personal data violations were pointed out, and the evolution of data protection measures was depicted as a continuous process. Training's interactivity ended in removing numerous doubts about the application of the right to personal data protection.

On 4 March 2024, carrying out activities to raise the awareness of operators about personal data processing, representatives of the Commissioner's Office Marko Milošević, Marin Cetinić, and Aleksandar Simić, held a training on the application of the Law on Personal Data Protection for employees of the Telecommunications Operator A1. About twenty people attended the training in person, while other employees had the opportunity to follow this training online. The emphasis of the training was on familiarization with the basic provisions of the law and the rights of individuals, and then, through various examples from the Commissioner's practice, the emphasis switched to the examples of the most common mistakes of operators, and the consequences of personal data breaches. Training's interactivity ended in removing numerous doubts about the application of the right to personal data protection.

As part of their professional practice on the short study program "Legal Data Protection and Access to Information", the 2023/2024 school year students visited the Office of the Commissioner. After the opening address of Commissioner Milan Marinović and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković, the students were greeted by Dragana Stojković, one of the lecturers on this study program.

Following this, the students had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the organizational structure of the Commissioner, his responsibilities, and typical examples from its practice presented by the representatives of the Sector for Education and Certification, Aleksandar Kocić Ranđelović, Marko Milošević, and Marin Cetinić. The participants were introduced to the evolution of data protection measures and the handling of the surveillance process under the old and current Personal Data Protection Law.