Submission of a copy of personal data

The right to submit a copy of personal data was regulated for the first time in the legal system of the Republic of Serbia by the Law on Personal Data Protection (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, Nos. 87/2018 of 13/11/2018), as part of the legal institute "Right to Access Personal Data''. This legal institute was assumed from the European Union, namely from Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council as of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation). From the beginning of implementation of the above law until today, the question of the form in which a copy of personal data is delivered to the data subject has been raised, i.e., whether the obligation to submit a copy of personal data necessarily means the obligation to submit a copy of documents containing personal data.