Ukraine is closer to European and international trade standards. Since  July 1, 2012 fines and other penalties provided by law to strengthen accountability for violations in the field of protection of personal data have become effective. This law was supposed to come into force in January this year, but it was postponed till July.

Changes to the Code of Administrative Offences will allow the state to penalize violators of the law "On protection of personal data." Under this law, companies with a database (of clients / customers and employees) are obliged to register them in the Protection of Personal Data State Service.

Also, the law obliges the company to obtain consent of the subject before submitting it to the data base. Failure to comply with the law involves penalties from 3.4 to 17 thousand UAH, and in some cases criminal liability.

Source: MEDIABUSINESS.COM.UA