The Ministry of Justice in cooperation with the Judicial Academy has organised two seminars on the implementation of the new Personal Data Protection Act for participants from the basic and the high courts, and the basic and the high prosecutor’s offices with appellate jurisdiction on the territory of Belgrade.
The seminars were held on 27 June and 28 June in the Misdemeanour Court in Belgrade. The lecturers were Professor Saša Gajin, PhD from the Union University Law Faculty and Marko Vukić from the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies.
The seminar participants had the opportunity to learn more about the Personal Data Protection Act, the connection between the Act and the new European rules, and sectoral laws. The lecturers also spoke about personal data, the principles of data processing and the rights of persons whose data are being processed and the protection of that data.
Sixteen two-day seminars on the implementation of the Personal Data Protection Act will have been organised between May and July 2019 in the Appellate Courts in Niš, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and Belgrade. In addition to undergoing basic training from August to October 2019, the judges of the courts’ respective litigation departments who will be conducting first-instance proceedings under the new Act will be attending special training.
The new legislative solutions, implementation of which will commence in August this year, improve the protection of the personal data inside the domestic legal system and in case of data transfers to third countries. The Act is in compliance with the corresponding European Union (EU) directives, making the personal data of the citizens of Serbia protected in the same way as in the EU Member States.