Author Archives: Shpend Recica

British Embassy trains IPA officials for recruitment on the principle of meritocracy

Prishtina, 28.02.2022 With the support of British Embassy, ​​through the BDO project, and in order to increase transparency and fair evaluation in the recruitment process, Information and Privacy Agency has conducted the training on “Recruitment on the principle of meritocracy”. IPA officials who will be part of the selection committees and representatives of NGOs (FOL, […]

Information and Privacy Agency starts ex officio inspection in the Municipality of Prishtina and the Central Election Commission

Pristina, February 21   In the framework of fulfilling the obligations arising from Law no. 06/L-082 on Personal Data Protection, the Information and Privacy Agency has already started ex officio inspection in the Municipality of Prishtina and the Central Election Commission, extending the law enforcement oversight authority. According to the Performance Plan for 2022, ex […]

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07 February 2022, Prishtina Agency for Information and Privacy On February 7, 2022, the Electronic Newspaper ‘Paparaci’ published an article entitled ‘Raiffeisen Bank sends Kosovars` Personal Data to Ukraine’, in which, among other things, it mentioned the Agency for Information and Privacy. In order to accurately inform the public, the Agency clarifies that Raiffeisen Bank […]

AGENCY FOR INFORMATION AND PRIVACY HELD ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO MARK ‘INTERNATIONAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION DAY’

Prishtina, 28 January 2022   The Agency for Information and Privacy (AIP) on the occasion of the International Day for the Protection of Personal Data, held today in Pristina a conference on “Data Protection and Freedom of Expression -‘’Now Safer”.   At the opening of the conference proceedings with the motto “Now Safer”, the Commissioner […]

Commissioner Sogojeva-Dërmaku hosted in a Working Meeting the General Director of Police, Mr. Samedin Mehmeti

Prishtina, January 13, 2022   In the office of the Commissioner of the Agency for Information and Privacy, today was hosted the General Director of Police, with whom, the head of this agency discussed about the topics of common inter-institutional interest, for which joint commitment is required. To guarantee the privacy of citizens, it was […]

MEDIA REPORT for the year 2021

MEDIA REPORT   The Agency for Information and Privacy during 2021, respectively with the start of exercising full legal competencies and authorizations since July, has carried out activities in implementation of Law No. 06 / L-081 on Access to Public Documents and Law No. 06 / L-082 on Personal Data Protection, with a focus on: […]

The Commissioner represents the Information and Privacy Agency at the Conference

Prishtina, December 10, 2021 Commissioner Mrs. Krenare Sogojeva Dermaku participated in the conference “Protection of Digital Transformation in the Region; Digital Agenda, Data Protection and Good Governance ” organized by Open Data Kosovo. Invited as part of the panel to discuss the topic ‘Addressing the importance of data protection as a region’ Commissioner Mrs. Sogojeva […]

The Albanian Commissioner Visited the Information and Privacy Agency

Prishtina, 09 December 2021   A delegation from the Commissioner for Information and Personal Data Protection from Tirana led by its head Mr. Besnik Dervishi, visited today the Information and Privacy Agency.   This marks the first official visit of the counterpart authority of Albania, which, in addition to a courtesy meeting at the Information […]

Round Table on Reporting about Public Institutions at the Information and Privacy Agency

Prizren, 07 December 2021 Under the auspices of OSCE, the Information and Privacy Agency has held a roundtable with representatives of the six municipalities in the Region of Prizren on “Improvement of Reporting on Requests to Access Public Documents “. Officials from information offices of the municipalities’: Prizren, Dragash, Mamusha, Rahovec, Suhareka and Malishevo, had […]

Commissioner Sogojeva-Dërmaku met with the President of the Constitutional Court, Mrs Gresa Caka- Nimani

Prishtine, 08 December 2021 Information and Privacy Commissioner, Mrs Krenare Sogojeva-Dermaku, was received in a meeting by the President of the Constitutional Court, Mrs Gresa Caka-Nimani The work of the Information and Privacy Agency so far, the challenges for its re-functioning as well as the priorities at work during the next year, were among the […]