The Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and International Relations recommends that the Parliament should adopt as a basis the draft law on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine re refining the system of personal data protection

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
19 April 2013, 09:33

The bill (Reg. No. 2836) suggests granting the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the following authorities:

to carry out scheduled and extraordinary, on-site and off-site inspections of owners and/or administrators of personal data;

to send the owner and/or administrator of personal data the petition of the Human Rights Commissioner in order to eliminate the existing violations of legislation in the part of personal data protection; 

to provide recommendations in the sphere of personal data protection;

to make suggestions in regard to forming and implementing state policy in the sphere of personal data protection in the order determined by legislation;

to monitor new practices, tendencies and technologies of personal data protection;

to align corporate code of conduct.

It is planned to amend the Code on Administrative Infringements.