Amendments To The Data Protection Law

On 20 November 2012 the Ukrainian Parliament voted to accept all the President's amendments to the Law "On Amendments to the Data Protection Law" (the "Amendments").

The Amendments limit the powers of the State Service on Personal Data Protection to avoid overlap of its competence with other executive agencies. In particular, the Personal Data Protection Service will not be in charge of:

• technical regulation and assessment of information security systems' compliance;
• development of personal data protection regulations for digital resources of telecommunications systems of the State.

At the same time the following provisions of the Amendments remain unchanged:

• requirement to register databases of personal information collected from the employees will be abolished;