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On February 25, 2021, a meeting between Commissioner Milan Marinović and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Thomas Schieb was held in the official premises of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection. The meeting discussed the engagement of the Commissioner in amendments to the Law on Access to Information of Public Importance, in the context of implementing reforms in the Republic of Serbia with the aim of joining the EU, as well as launching an initiative to activate and update the Personal Data Protection Strategy which would, among other things, harmonize all relevant regulations with the Law on Personal Data Protection.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection received on February 22, 2021, a written decision by Spotify AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden, in which the company appoints its representative for the Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection.

The representative of this company for the Republic of Serbia is the Law Office Karanović & Partners o.a.d. Belgrade, at the address Resavska 23, Belgrade.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Milan Marinović, visited the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina today.

The Commissioner met with the Secretary General of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina, Nikola Banjac, and the Assistant Secretary General of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina, Dragutin Galović.

The topic of discussion was the upcoming amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance. Special emphasis in the conversation was placed on the proposal to amend the Law to enable the formation of organizational units of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection оutside the Headquarters in Belgrade, of which one such organizational unit would be established in Novi Sad.

In a cordial and open conversation, the interlocutors agreed that the initiative on the formation of organizational units of the Commissioner outside Belgrade is good and useful, and it was stated that discussions on this topic will continue in the future.

On February 3, 2021, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Milan Marinović, received an official visit from the Ombudsman for Human Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prof. Dr. Ljubinko Mitrovic. During the conversation, the topic which was discussed the most was the current state of freedom of access to information of public importance in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as this is an area that is under the jurisdiction of these two bodies. It was agreed to intensify mutual cooperation, especially with regard to normative activities in the field of access to information of public importance.