BDK promotes new partners

BDK promotes new partners

BDK Advokati/Attorneys at Law promoted Ana Jankov and Bogdan Ivanišević to partners, effective as of the beginning of January 2016. Ana Jankov has been leading BDK Employment practice since October 2013, while Bogdan Ivanišević has been at the forefront of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice since 2012. The two of them will also continue to […]

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Serbia: Mental health data leakage

In December 2015, a journalist disclosed one patient’s health data in a TV show. The data were related to the patient’s mental health and his treatment in the mental health clinic “Dr Laza Lazarevic”, in Belgrade. The Serbian Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (“Commissioner”) promptly established that the clinic disclosed […]

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Final text of the EU Regulation compared with draft Serbian law

On 15 December 2015, the European Parliament and Council of the European Union agreed on the final text of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“Regulation“). We now know what the legal regime concerning protection of the personal data will be in the EU for a considerable time after 2018, the year the Regulation will […]

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Serbian Commission market tests commitments proposed by Serbian Railways

Serbian Railways (Železnica Srbije) is a state-owned railway company, which until recently had a vertically integrated structure, both managing Serbia’s railway infrastructure and providing freight and passenger transportation services. Following accusations of foreclosure of the railway infrastructure market, Railways came under the spotlight of the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition. In particular, the concern […]

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Chilling at the Chillin’ Competition conference in Brussels

Since its inception in 2009, the Chillin’ Competition blog has achieved somewhat of a cult status amongst competition law students, academics and practitioners. Thanks to a singular blend of irreverent humour rarely seen in the legal world and on-point legal analysis of competition law cases and competition law related events, the blog has reaped over a million […]

BDK Advokati advises Net Holding

BDK advises Iron Mountain

BDK has advised Iron Mountain, NYSE listed storage and information management company and a member of FORTUNE 1000, on the acquisition of Iron Trust d.o.o., one of the leading companies in Serbia in the archive management, imaging services and data storage. The BDK team was led by Senior Partner Vladimir Dašić, and included Associates Marija […]

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Getting to know the Draft Serbian Data Protection Act – Part 4 (Positive features)

The shortcomings in the Draft Serbian Data Protection Act (“Draft“), analysed in our blog posts of 13 and 17 November, do not tell the whole story about the Draft. The document also contains positive features, mainly (but not solely) when it espouses novel solutions from the Draft data protection regulation (“Draft EU Regulation“). Overall, the shortcomings in draft are numerous and serious […]