On 20 November 2024, one day after the Montenegrin parliament adopted a new Cybersecurity Act, our senior partner Bogdan Ivanišević and associate Anja Gligorević held a seminar in Podgorica about the obligations for companies stemming from the Act. The seminar was co-organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Montenegro and BDK Advokati. The event […]
BDK Advokati has contributed the Serbia chapter to the 2025 edition of Lexology Panoramic – Data Protection & Privacy (July 2024). The chapter presents the regulatory framework under Serbian data protection law, which has been in effect since August 2019. The law is modelled after the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Senior partner Bogdan Ivanišević and attorney […]
On 5 November 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR“) issued a judgment in the joint case of Stefanović and Banković v. Serbia. The case joined two separate applications filed in April 2016, concerning the same issue. Namely, in both cases the Constitutional Court had quashed final and binding civil court judgments upon constitutional […]
In its Opinion 22/2024, dated 9 October 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) clarifies data controllers’ responsibilities under Article 28 of the GDPR when engaging processors and sub-processors. This summary outlines key takeaways from the Opinion. Identification of all processors and sub-processors: a fundamental responsibility for controllers: In the increasingly complex landscape of data […]
In October 2024, the Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure passed the Rulebook on Arranging, Managing, Disposing and Landfilling Construction Waste during Performance of Works (Pravilnik o uređivanju, upravljanju, odlaganju i deponovanju građevinskog otpada u toku izvođenja radova, Official Gazette of RS no. 81/2024) (“C&D Waste Rulebook“). Waste management plan The obligation to prepare waste […]
Our senior partner, Bogdan Ivanišević, moderated a panel on the legal framework for cyber security in Serbia and the E.U., at the Cyber Security Summit held in Belgrade on October 30. His interlocutors were Dr. Milena Nikolić, contract manager for cyber security at Siemens Energy, and Senad Džananović, Sarajevo-based director of cyber security at ZIRA, […]
The freshly released edition of IFLR1000 rankings ranks our firm Tier 1 in Financial and corporate and Project development areas in Serbia and in Montenegro. Our Bosnian Project development practice is Tier 2, and Financial and corporate practice also receives recognition. Five of our partners are recognized as highly regarded professionals: Tijana Kojović, Vladimir Dašić, […]
Our senior associate Marija Gligorević held on 17 October 2024 a workshop for in-house counsels and HRs on termination of employment for redundancy caused by technological, economic or organizational changes. Marija explained the procedure for managing redundancy procedure, detailing the differences between individual and mass redundancy. The workshop also focused on the relevant redundancy documentation. […]
A recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union might prove to serve a purpose the parties and the Court surely did not have in mind: it could help resolve some dilemmas concerning the data protection laws of Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina (“BiH“), neither of which is an EU member state. […]
BDK Advokati held a seminar on 9 October 2024 on the draft cybersecurity law in Serbia and the European Union NIS2 Directive. The participants included representatives of leading companies active in Serbia’s energy, health, postal service, food production, and scientific research sectors. Senior Partner Bogdan Ivanišević provided a context of the draft law by drawing […]
