In Strasbourg from 15.11. to 17.11.2023, the 45th plenary session of the Consultative Committee for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108) was held in the organization of the Council of Europe, in which the representative of the Commissioner's Office, Marin Cetinić, the deputy representative of the Republic of Serbia in the aforementioned committee and Senior Advisor in the Sector for Education and Certification. The main topics of the 45th plenary session were: interpretation of Article 11 of the modernized Convention 108; processing of personal data in regulations governing elections and voting in the area of voter registration and authentication; cooperation with other bodies of the Council of Europe, entities and observers; as well as consideration of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in the area of personal data protection. Council of Europe Data Protection Commissioner Jean-Philippe Walter spoke about further development and activities in the field of data protection. In his address to the Consultative Committee, the representative of Serbia stated, among other things, that in May 2020 the Republic of Serbia ratified the Protocol on Amendments to the Convention on the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, as well as that the Commissioner in his work, when adopting certain decisions, applies the provisions of that Protocol.

A special discussion took place on the interpretation of Article 11 of the modernized Convention 108, the European Data Act, and also the processing of personal data arising from neurology and neurotechnology, as the next topic that the Committee will deal with within the scope of its work plan in the period from 2022 to 2025. Before the end of the 45th plenary session, the member states elected a new member of the Bureau of the Consultative Committee, where the representative of Finland was elected by the majority of votes.