Author Archives: Arbian Arifi

The Information and Privacy Agency of the Republic of Kosovo organizes a regional conference with counterpart authorities from Albania, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia. The purpose of the Conference is the exchange of best practices in the field of personal data protection, the unfolding of common challenges in this field, as well as the deepening of […]

The Information and Privacy Agency, on 7/06/2022, due to non-implementation of the binding decision No. A-151/2022, on 01 April 2022, of IPA to provide full access to public documents has imposed a fine on Municipality of Kacanik. Therefore, the Information and Privacy Agency will continue to work towards fulfilling the fundamental right of the citizens […]

The officials of the Information and Privacy Agency were part of a very useful training, organized by EULEX, which will facilitate communication with the public using best practices in this field, as well as the equipment provided during this training. For more you can follow the video made by EULEX: https://www.facebook.com/EULEX.KOSOVO/posts/pfbid02JMmqMDz3r6tSFxunKabeYBHYrPASFPDMAuKhkJeJC494hTtAsQPXB4UJBkwgRjfNl?notif_id=1655803386600416&notif_t=mention&ref=notif

With the support of GIZ, the workshop on Personal Data Protection started today with experts from the Croatian Personal Data Protection Authority as lecturers. The opening of this workshop was made by the Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Mrs. Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, as well as the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia, Mrs. Danijela Barisic. […]

The Commissioner of the Information and Privacy Agency, Mrs. Krenare Sogojeva-Dërmaku and a delegation of the Agency are participating in the conference “The future of data protection: effective enforcement in the digital world” organized by Mr. Wojciech Wiewiorowski (EDPS), which hosted about 400 participants in Brussels. With a group of over 100 distinguished speakers sharing […]

After conducting the inspection procedures, on 26/05/2022, the Information and Privacy Agency has ascertained that the Ministry of Health, as a controller, has processed personal data through the camera surveillance system in violation of the criteria of the Law on Protection of Personal Data. Therefore, the Agency has issued Decision no. 116/2022, dated 06/06/2022, which […]

The Information and Privacy Agency, after reviewing the complaint filed by the Kosovo Institute of Justice against the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, pursuant to the Law on Access to Public Documents, has obliged the KPC to provide access to Final Scoring documents by all members of the evaluation panel for each candidate for Chief State Prosecutor, […]

For more information, follow the following news from the Ministry of Justice: “The workshop of the Working Group for drafting the Draft Law on the Central Criminal Evidence System is being held. The Ministry of Justice has organized a three-day workshop for drafting the Law on the Central Criminal Evidence System, which brings a range […]

The Commissioner of the Information and Privacy Agency, Mrs. Sogojeva – Dërmaku and the General Director of the Kosovo Police, Mr. Mehmeti, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Support and Cooperation in order to receive support from the Police and mutual cooperation between the Police and the Agency within their scope of activity, in order […]

The Information and Privacy Agency, on 27/05/2022, has conducted an inspection regarding the supervision of the legality of the processing of biometric data (facial features) in order to identify employees during their registration at the entrance-exit from work in the company Hidrodini. In this case, after the completion of the inspection procedures, the Agency for […]