Our officials’ new trick: mandatory registration of personal data databases

On January 1, 2011, Ukraine’s law “On Personal Data Protection” came into force, requir­ing manda­tory state reg­is­tra­tion of per­sonal data databases. And it applies not only to legal enti­ties, as you might think, but also to sole proprietors. Why is every­one talk­ing about it only now? Because from January 1, 2012, fines start­ing at 5,100 hryv­nias apply for not com­ply­ing with this law.

To learn what these data­bases are and what to do with them, I rec­om­mend read­ing “An overview of the personal data protection law”, “Instructions for registering a personal data database” and the arti­cle “On personal data protection in Ukraine” on Habr, the Russian-language tech com­mu­nity (where would we be with­out Habr?).

And if you’re in Odesa, go to the joint sem­i­nar by attor­ney Viktor Ageyev and lawyer Alexander Slavskiy: “Registering personal data databases”.

Price:

For ques­tions about attend­ing and pay­ment, con­tact Alexander Slavskiy or Viktor Ageyev.

Register for the sem­i­nar here: http://bit.ly/bazy_dannih_registracia

And if you men­tion that you heard about the sem­i­nar from me (write “Stas Parshin” in the last field), you can get a 7% discount.

Here are some useful answers from Alexander:

A com­bined answer to the common ques­tions: NO, you don’t need to reg­is­ter your tax reports as a data­base (you reg­is­ter your data­base of coun­ter­par­ties); NO, it isn’t your coun­ter­party data­base in 1C [the account­ing soft­ware] that you reg­is­ter (that’s just a data­base of coun­ter­par­ties); NO, you don’t need to send the data­bases anywhere.

[And YES, he adds, the chance of an inspec­tion is low, though in a coun­try with selec­tive jus­tice it rises sharply if you dis­agree with the gov­ern­ment or have a large turnover.]