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April 18, 2023

PR Legal re-ranked at The Legal 500

We are deeply proud and pleased to announce that our law firm PR Legal has been re-ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 as one of the leading offices in Serbia in the field of employment law. What has notably contributed to the abovesaid ranking on this prestigious list is the successful advising of the clients with regards to the structuring and implementation of various projects which, among other things, include significant changes concerning the organizational units and workplaces, as well as general acts, employment contracts and other documentation in relation thereto. Some of our clients’ recommendations: “Clients are amazed...

April 12, 2023

Scope of the Right of Access to Personal Data – An Interesting Case from Austria

Recently, the European Court of Justice passed a significant judgment regarding the exercise of the right of access by the data subject, in relation to the case that happened in Austria in this respect. Details of the case Namely, the Austrian postal service maintained an extensive database of Austrian residents, which data were shared with third parties (e.g., advertisers, humanitarian organizations, etc.). When the data subjects requested information about the individual recipients of their personal data from the subject postal service as the controller, the post rejected their request, and listed only categories of recipients, but did not individualize them...

April 05, 2023

Changes in Submission of Tax Return for Annual Personal Income Tax

As mentioned in one of our previous articles (available here), the application of amendments to the Law on Personal Income Tax, which were published in the Official Gazette of RS no. 138/2022 of 12 December 2022 and which stipulate that the annual personal income tax shall be paid by self-taxation and not on the basis of the decision rendered by the competent tax authority, which was the case so far, commenced on 1 January 2023. In relation thereto, the Rulebook on Tax Return for Annual Personal Income Tax (Official Gazette of RS no. 24/2023) was passed, and it entered into...

March 30, 2023

Work Ability Assessment – Competence and Procedure

According to the Labour Law (Off. Gazette of the RS no. 24/2005, 61/2005, 54/2009, 32/2013, 75/2014, 13/2017 – decision of the CC, 113/2017 and 95/2018 – authentic interpretation), an employee with health issues, established by the competent medical authority pursuant to the law, shall not be allowed to pursue work that could result in deterioration of their health or consequences dangerous for their environment (Article 81, paragraph 2). The Labour Law also stipulates that an employer is obliged to ensure that the employee - a person with a disability or health problems (from Article 81, paragraph 2 of the Labour...

March 29, 2023

XV Belgrade Open Pre-Moot held in Belgrade

XV Belgrade Open Pre-Moot the competition of law students from all over the world in the matter of commercial and arbitration law was held in Belgrade this weekend (March 24-26, 2023). This competition is one of the leading pre-moot tournaments for Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, a student competition in the aforesaid matter and it has been held in Vienna for three decades. This year's Belgrade competition, held at Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu / University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, was attended by students from over 20 different countries, i.e., about 50 teams, many of which recorded...

March 27, 2023

Guidelines of the European Data Protection Board with regards to Cookie Banners

On 18 January 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“the EDPB”) published the Report of the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Taskforce (“the Report”), which issues were outlined in the complaints of the European Center for Digital Rights (“NOYB”). Namely, NOYB filed hundreds of complaints to data protection authorities throughout the EU, with regards to the use of banners, which primarily referred to the mode of accepting and rejecting cookies, as well as the design and characteristics of banners. Therefore, the Report enacted the guidelines on interpretation of provisions of the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2002/58/EC (“the...

March 20, 2023

Termination of employment during the probation period – regulations and case law

Pursuant to the provisions of the Labor Law (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia no. 24/2005, 61/2005, 54/2009, 32/2013, 75/2014, 13/2017 - decision of the US, 113/2017 and 95/2018 - authentic interpretation) (“the Law”), by an employment contract the employer and the employee may establish the probation period for performance of one or more related jobs specified in that contract. Probation period is regulated in the Law in only one article (Article 36), which further stipulates that probation period can last up to six months, as well as that it can be terminated both before and on the day...

March 16, 2023

New feature by Google – is it that easy to manage personal data?

Starting from September 2022, the people in the USA (soon after all other users globally) can use Google’s new Results About You feature, which aims to provide a simpler way for people to get their sensitive personal information out of Google’s search results, such as physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses and this feature shall allow users to opt in to alerts when new personal information related to them appears in search results, enabling users to request removal more quickly. Even though this type of personal information is not necessarily considered to be spam nor something illegal for it...

March 08, 2023

The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Issued a Publication with Stances, Opinions and Practice regarding the Personal Data Protection

On the occasion of International Data Privacy Day (January 28), as in previous years, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (“the Commissioner”) issued a publication “Personal Data Protection: Stances, Opinions and Practice of the Commissioner”. This publication is the eighth of this type and it is available on this link. In the upcoming text, we will present several stances, i.e., opinions of the Commissioner published in this book with regards to the application of the Law on Personal Data Protection (“the Law”). Processing the employees’ biometric data with face recognition device for the purpose of...

February 22, 2023

TikTok Fined for Unlawful Collection of Personal Data via Cookies

The French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL“) has recently passed a decision by which the social network TikTok is fined with 5 million euros for violation of provisions of the French Law on Data Protection (“the Law“) and GDPR. The fine was imposed for unlawful use of cookies, i.e., collection of data on users’ online activities without previous obtaining of their valid consent for such personal data processing. Circumstances of the case CNIL conducted investigation of the use of cookies on TikTok website, which is a social network designed for video content sharing, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. During the...

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