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The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has launched a supervision procedure over the implementation of the Law on Personal Data Protection in the Chamber of enforcement officers.

The immediate cause is the manner of implementation of the amendments to the Law on Enforcement and Security, which entered into force on 26 December. According to the above amendments, enforcement officers are obliged to deliver the Chamber data on the authentic document on the basis of provided utility and related services which enforcement is requested, so the Chamber can evenly distribute the enforcement officers throughout the territory of the Republic of Serbia, and only if the Chamber fails to respond within 5 days, a creditor may contact a local enforcement officer.

Accordingly, the Chamber is obliged to issue within 15 days a general rule specifying in detail the contents and manner of submitting a request by the enforcement creditor to the Chamber, the contents of the response of the Chamber and the manner of submission of response of the Chamber to the enforcement creditor. The Chamber published, not within 15 days, but the same day on 26 December, on its website that it had adopted a Rulebook! The contents of the Rulebook, nor information on obtained approval from the Minister and on the publication of the Rulebook in the Official Gazette were not disclosed. Forms to be filled and submitted to the Chamber have been also published with a notice that it will submit a list of competent enforcement officers to whom enforcement motions should be filed.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest and Personal Data Protection, appeals regarding publication of the link leading to the database of a large number of personal data in the daily Kurir (Courier), to all media to definitely abstain from such actions.

The authorizations of the Commissioner do not pertain to data processing by the media, but the Commissioner warns all media that by such actions they unnecessarily expose to risk citizens' data and they expose themselves to liability for damage which can result from this.

The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest and Personal Data Protection, Rodoljub Šabić, has in reaction to the crime perpetrated in the Editorial Staff of the magazine "Charlie Hebdo", sent to Mrs. Christine Moro, Ambassador of the Republic of France in Belgrade a condolences telegram, with the following contents:

"I deeply and sincerely regret due to horrible, insane crime perpetrated in the Editorial Staff of "Charlie Hebdo" magazine.

Would you kindly accept and convey, on behalf of the employees of the institution I represent, and on my personal behalf, our deepest sympathy due to the tragic death of French journalists and policemen, to their families."

The Commissioner for Information of Public Interest and Personal Data Protection has received the statement of the Belgrade Land Development Directorate, given under the surveillance procedure, which the Commissioner has initiated in the Directorate, based on the complaint of the Tenants' Assembly in the building in Karadjordjeva no. 36, stating that the Directorate has announced and is trying to implement the "list of tenants" and "surveying of apartments" in order to "determine the factual and legal status", without offering any justification whatsoever and without quoting the legal base, except the abstract formulation "in order to implement Belgrade on Water Project".