The Commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection has notified the public of the appointment of Živković Samardžić Law office as the representative of YANDEX LLC 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.
Yandex is a Russian multinational corporation providing Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information services, eCommerce, mobile applications, and online advertising. The firm is the largest technology company in Russia and it has one of the five largest search engines worldwide in addition to Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo.
If you have any inquires relating to Yandex LLC, please contact Sava Pavlović (sava.pavlovic@zslaw.rs), Živković Samardžić Corporate and M&A Senior associate. For all your questions regarding the privacy and protection of personal data in Serbia, please contact Živković Samardžić Technology, Media and Telecommunications Partner Slobodan Kremenjak (slobodan.kremenjak@zslaw.rs), Associate Igor Petronijević (igor.petronijevic@zslaw.rs), or any of your regular contacts at Živković Samardžić.