GDPR’s first two years – guideline for Serbia’s DP practitioners

Senior associate Milica Basta spoke at the online conference “Data Protection – 2020” hosted by the agency Forum Media from Belgrade. The event took place on 30 November 2020. More than 30 professionals from public and private sectors attended.

Milica spoke on the two-year implementation of GDPR in EU as a guide for application of the Serbian Data Protection Act (2018). She pointed to a wide range of decisions taken by European courts and supervisory authorities that set standards for interpretation of specific GDPR provisions. Milica also took part in a panel discussion where the speakers answered the questions from the participants. The questions concerned a vast array of data protection issues including conclusion of data processing agreements, proper installation of video surveillance systems, direct marketing through social media, and processing of biometric data in the context of employment.

Milica’s presentation can be accessed here (in Serbian).

Other speakers at the conference were Zlatko Petrović, Assistant Secretary General at the Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, and data protection lawyers Dragan Milić and Nenad Cvjetićanin.