On October 30, 2025, the third in a series of meeting was held at the premises of the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection in Belgrade, where, at the highest level of personal data protection authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, and now also North Macedonia, discussing adequate mechanisms for cooperation and action in relation to the processing of personal data initiated last year by the companies "Meta" and "X" for the purpose of training artificial intelligence, without prior notification of service users in the countries of the Western Balkans, as well as the common problem of failure to designate personal data protection representatives of certain multinational companies, which massively process personal data of citizens, on the territory of the said four countries.

The delegation of the Personal Data Protection Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina was led by Dr. Dragoljub Reljić, Director of the Agency, the delegation of the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information of Montenegro by Ms. Maja Žunjić Mitrović, Director of the Agency, and Mr. Željko Rutović, President of the Council of the Agency, the delegation of the Personal Data Protection Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia by Ms. Elena Veljanovska, Deputy Director of the Agency, and the meeting was hosted by Commissioner Milan Marinović and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković. The participants of the meeting agreed to call this type of cooperation among the four personal data protection authorities from the Western Balkans "Privacy4Balkans."

In a constructive discussion, to which all those present actively contributed, the Personal Data Protection Agency of North Macedonia was welcomed, the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding was announced, which will further confirm the importance of jointly resolving current personal data protection problems and effective regional action, while agreeing on the dynamics of a joint approach aimed at certain multinational companies not seated in the Privacy4Balkans gathered countries to designate a representative in accordance with the laws governing personal data protection in our countries.