AmCham News & Events
Spring 2018 / Issue 57
Perspective of the Directorate for Personal
Data Protection on GDPR Implementation
On March 28 AmCham hosted a learning session where
the Secretary-General of the Directorate for Personal Data
Protection (DZLP) Ivan Kuzevski spoke to more than 20
representatives of member companies on the compar-
ison between the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) and the existing Law on Personal Data Protection
(LPDP) in the Republic of Macedonia.
He also shared very useful insights into the elements of
the new draft LPDP and emphasized the Government’s
efforts to protect personal data.
In the last part of the session, Kuzevski answered ques-
tions from the participants in order to help Macedonian
companies to embark on the road towards harmonization
with European regulations and preparation for the new
Macedonian legislation.
Insight into Pivara Skopje’s Socio-Economic
Impact Study
On January 25th, Pivara’s Lam-
bro Patce, Public Affairs & Com-
munications Manager and Dushan
Mitrev, Chief Financial Officer, offered
a “behind the scenes look” at the
creation of Pivara Skopje’s first
Socio-Economic impact Study.
Lambro Patce stressed that they
share a common goal with all inves-
tors and business entities in the
country - a stable and favorable
business climate that will stimulate
development and predictable regu-
lation that would be amended and
supplemented through dialogue and
cooperation with the business sec-
tor. He pointed to presenting the
company’s operation to the entire
public in a transparent, independent
and objective way and its impact on
the domestic economy and the wider
community as their main motive for
the preparation and publicatio