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Serbian commissioner’s warning on data protection directive
Serbian Information Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic warned on Thursday that the European Union directive on data protection will affect Serbian companies doing business in the EU.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect across Europe on May 25.
Speaking on the N1 360 Degrees show, Sabic said that Serbian companies should make sure their business operations are in line with >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << the directive because “the fines could knock them out”.
The GDPR is not something new but was adopted in 2016 and was enforced, he said and added that the directive is enforced on anyone processing the personal data of EU citizens or who does business on those markets. He warned that Serbia has an irresponsible atmosphere in this context.
Serbian ministries should invest greater efforts to help small and medium sized companies operating on EU markets, Sabic said.
The Information Commissioner said Serbia is very far from EU data protection standards. “We have a law [on data protection] which was inadequate when it was adopted and it was clear at the time that it was not a good law,” he said.
The GDPR will introduce some rules and a much more responsible data protection regime, he said, adding that its implementation requires a serious effort by EU member states. “If they have a problem in reaching that level, then we should be thinking much harder about the problem for us. The fact that the directive is taking effect in the EU does not mean it does not concern us,” the commissioner warned.
According to Sabic, the Snowden case demonstrated the pretensions of security services.
“Security services have pretensions everywhere, including Serbia, which are hard to justify with a fight against organized crime. The interest of the state and security services in making the fight against crime more efficient is indisputable but there has to be some control,“ the commissioner said.
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