Registration To Data Controllers Registry

Introduction

The article 16 of the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (the "Law")¹ (i) sets forth that a Data Controllers Registry (the "Registry"), to which all of the data controllers are obliged to register, is kept by the Presidency of the Protection of Personal Data (the "Presidency") under the supervision of the Personal Data Protection Board (the "Board"); and (ii) authorizes the Board for regulating the principals and procedures as well as for determining the exemptions relating to the registration obligation. The clause (d) of the article 22 of the Law further assigns the Board with the duty of keeping the Registry.

Based on such authority and duty prescribed in the Law, the Board (i) published the Regulation on the Data Controllers Registry (the "Regulation")² with the purposes of establishing and maintaining the Registry, determining the principles and procedures relating to the registrations required to be made thereof, and providing