Amendments to the legislation on Personal Data Protection in Ukraine
made the procedures more transparent.
July 23, 2013 the President of Ukraine signed the Law on amendments to
certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning improvement of personal
data protection.
One of the most important changes in the legislation is rejecting of
entities authorized state body on Protection of Personal Data and
transmission control functions to the Ombudsman. The system of
registration of personal databases is also eliminated and replaced to
the Ombudsman report on the processing of sensitive personal data.
The changes extended the rights of the subject of personal data and
related obligations of the holder. The subject shall have the right,
inter alia:
To be aware of the sources of personal data collection; the location of
their personal data; the purpose of processing; the location or place of
residence or the holder of a personal data; and to receive no later
than thirty calendar days of receipt of the request, the response of
whether it handled personal data, and get the content of such personal data;
To raise a complaint to the processing of personal data to the Ombudsman
or the court.
The new regulations made provision for the state authorities responsible
for the data protection issues. The list of such officials will be
available on the Ombudsman web-site.
