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title: "Our officials' new trick: mandatory registration of personal data databases"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/mandatory-registration-of-personal-data-databases
published: 2011-12-22
summary: "A 2011 Ukrainian law made every business, sole proprietors included, register its personal data databases, with fines from January 2012. Where to start."
---

# 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](http://taxer.com.ua/blog/24)", "[Instructions for registering a personal data database](http://taxer.com.ua/blog/23)" and the article "[On personal data protection in Ukraine](http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/Dura_Lex/134678/)" 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](http://bit.ly/bazy_dannih_registracia)".

> Price:
>
> - 400 UAH if paid on December 24–26, 2011
> - 300 UAH if registered and paid by December 24, 2011
> - 300 UAH to attend online (webinar), if paid on December 24–26, 2011
> - 200 UAH to attend online, if registered and paid by December 24, 2011
>
> For questions about attending and payment, contact Alexander Slavskiy or Viktor Ageyev.

Register for the seminar here: [http://bit.ly/bazy\_dannih\_registracia](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](https://www.facebook.com/slavskiy/posts/2735007007593):

> 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.]