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The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic today in the premises of the Office of the Council for National Security and Protection of Classified Data was handed a certificate for access to classified data assigned the level of classification "top secret" ("state secret").

The Certificate for access to all classified information, regardless of the level of classification, has an extremely small number of state officials, it is issued on the recommendation of the SIA, after conducting special security clearance, which is the most rigorous one specified by our laws. The Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic already has a certificate of the same level, and by this new certificate the right to access confidential data assigned the level of confidentiality "top secret" has been extended for a period of 3 years.

In this regard, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said the following:

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection warned the Chamber of enforcement officers that contrary to the Law on Personal Data Protection, without legal authority or consent to processing, processes personal data of debtors.

The Chamber of enforcement officers has begun processing of personal data of debtors (name, address, amount due), indicating as a basis "Rulebook on the contents and manner of submitting a request to the Chamber of enforcement officers for determining the competent enforcement officer", which it adopted itself.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection estimates that yesterday's announcement of the Ministry of Defence, which "explains" the failure of the Ministry to act on the order contained in the Commissioner's ruling, is disinformation of the public and shows, if nothing else, worrying ignorance of relevant laws.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection assesses that the statement of the Trade Union of Municipal ("Communal") Police, in the context of the situation emerged after handcuffing and apprehension of a female citizen for not having the bus ticket, in which the Trade Union "strongly condemns the illegal recording by unknown persons" and announces filing of a criminal complaint, is not appropriate and valid way to response in this situation.