The Commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection has notified the public of the appointment of MSI's Serbian law member Živković Samardžić as the representative of SNAP Inc. under the Serbian Data Protection Act.
Similar to the Article 27 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 in the EU, Serbian Data Protection Act, in its Article 44, requires data controllers or processors processing personal data of Serbian citizens, if not established in Serbia, to designate representatives who should act on their behalf and may be addressed by Serbian supervisory authority, the Commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection.
Failure to appoint representative is a misdemeanour in Serbia, pursuant to the Article 95 of the Data Protection Act. SHARE Foundation, a local non-profit organization, active in data privacy field, 