Another seminar on the implementation of the new Personal Data Protection Act was held at the Judicial Academy. It was attended by participants from misdemeanour and basic courts, basic prosecutor’s offices and representatives of the Ombudsman’s Office. The seminars, organised by Ministry of Justice in cooperation with the Judicial Academy, have been about the efficient implementation of the Personal Data Protection Act, the relation between the Act and the new European rules, sectoral laws, the personal data itself as well as the principles of data processing and rights of persons whose data are being processed and the protection of that data. The lecturers were Professor Saša Gajin, PhD from the Union University Law Faculty and Marko Vukić from the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies.
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.