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During July, the Commissioner organized training for representatives of the private sector - Coming – Computer Engineering doo (June 25) and Maxbet (June 29) at the initiative of these companies. The training focused on their familiarization with the obligations under the Law and finding an adequate legal basis for data processing. In this context, the participants were introduced to the model act on legitimate interest assessment (Serbian language only) as well as the mandatory elements of the contract in the controller-processor relationship. To properly understand the application of the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law, through the application of the principles, the most characteristic data processing was presented to the representatives of these companies. Around fifty employees attended the training sessions, and the Commissioner intends to extend such training to other actors from these sectors to raise awareness on the proper application of this regulation.

On July 16, lecturers from the Sector for Education and Certification, Marko Milošević and Nemanja Damjanović, held a training on the implementation of the Law on Personal Data Protection for employees of the Human Resources Management Service.

30 employees attended the training. During the training, the emphasis was on data processing in the work of this Service and identifying the obligations under the Law. The application of protection measures was emphasized, particularly the pseudonymization measure, to ensure public competition transparency and personal data protection. In addition to these issues, special attention was paid to data retention periods and methods of properly determining those periods in regards to personal data processing. Since the main activity of this authority is the selection and management of human resources, conducting psychological assessments of candidates, employees were also familiarized with the importance of proper protection of special categories of personal data. In two-way communication, representatives of the Commissioner aimed to resolve existing doubts among employees and improve their level of knowledge about personal data protection.

The Commissioner Milan Marinović, Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković, and the Acting Assistant Secretary General Dragana Stojković attended the certificate award ceremony of the short study program "Legal Data Protection and Access to Information" at the Faculty of Law of Kragujevac University on 17 July 2025. This is the fourth generation of students to achieve the title of Manager in both laws under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection.

The program aims to raise the level of staff expertise in the areas of personal data protection and access to information of public importance, to systematically and in detail familiarize them with the rights citizens have in terms of protecting their personal data and obtaining information of public importance, which should contribute not only to increasing the efficiency and quality of the administration's work, but also to greater security of our citizens' data.

In addition to professors from the faculty, lecturers in this program are Commissioner Milan Marinović, Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković, and Acting Assistant Secretary General Dragana Stojković. The specificity of this short study program lies in the fact that participants acquire knowledge in both rights protected by the Commissioner: personal data protection and access to information of public importance.

On this occasion, the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner held a meeting with the newly elected Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Dr. Bojan Urdarević, who, among other things, discussed the continuation and deepening of cooperation between these two institutions.

On Thursday, June 26, starting at 11 a.m., an online workshop/lecture on personal data protection was held at the premises of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). The lecture was attended by coordinators of youth offices within the project "Perspectives for young people in rural areas in Serbia". Aleksandar Kocić Ranđelović, Assistant Secretary General, Sector for Education and Certification, held this lecture. The workshop aimed to familiarize youth office coordinators with the Law on Personal Data Protection and prepare them for working with young people in their local communities.