The Commission for the Protection of Competition has adopted Guidelines providing further clarification of the concept of protected data, prescribing the form and content of requests for data protection, and establishing the manner in which protected data are to be redacted from documents published in proceedings concerning the determination of unfair trading practices.

Protected data comprise trade secrets, commercially sensitive information, and confidential information.

In addition to other types of information, commercially sensitive information may include information that could enable the identification of the initiator or of third parties where there are legitimate grounds for maintaining their anonymity.

Confidential information includes information concerning the identity of interested parties, initiators, parties cooperating in the proceedings, and other persons providing information at the Commission’s request (sources of information), as well as other persons responding to the Commission’s requests, orders or notices, where the disclosure of their identity could result in significant harm to those persons.

These Guidelines shall enter into force on 8 August 2026, on the eighth day following their publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia.