While all eyes of the Ukrainian data privacy community are on two draft laws at the Ukrainian Parliament aiming to implement the GDRP and establish a modern DPA in Ukraine, on 18 November 2021 the parliament adopted another law with an unrelated name, the Law of Ukraine on Public Electronic Registries.
The Ukraine Government has published a plan of measures (“Plan”) on the implementation of the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement approved on 25 October 2017.The Plan (para. 11) requires the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, the government entity responsible for data protection in Ukraine, to implement Article 15 of the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement and revise legislation on the protection of personal data to bring it into compliance with the GDPR by 25 May 2018.The detailed action…