Commissioner Milan Marinović and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković participated in the Fifth Meeting of the “Privacy4Balkans” Regional Initiative, held on 28 April 2026 in Podgorica, organized by the Agency for Personal Data Protection of Montenegro. At this meeting, attended by leaders and representatives of the authorities engaged in personal data protection from Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia, the main topic was the coordination of further activities regarding a joint approach towards large, primarily technological, multinational companies that have not yet fulfilled their obligation, prescribed by the laws of the aforementioned countries, to designate a personal data protection representative in our countries.

In addition to the meeting held in plenary, a series of meetings were held at the bilateral level, discussing topics as the organization and functioning of these bodies in today's era of great challenges and risks to the personal data protection caused, primarily, by the increasingly widespread use of video surveillance for the purpose of personal data processing, the expansion of biometric data processing and the comprehensive personal data processing by artificial intelligence. It was agreed that the next meeting would be held in Belgrade.