On December 4, 2012, Interfax-Ukraine news agency hosted representatives of State Service of Ukraine on Personal Data Protection (SSPDP) and legal community in order to discuss pressing issues and take stock of what has happened in the two years the Act of Ukraine on Protection of Personal Data has been in effect.

SSPDP deputy chairman Vladimir Kozak told attendees that since SSPDP started its work it issued dozens of binding instructions to remedy violations in the area of personal data protection. Caselaw on the application of this Act is emerging as well. Mr Kozak indicated that the community has been significantly more active in this regard and many professional associations and companies are undertaking the task of developing corporate codes of conduct regarding the protection of personal data.

It will be recalled that this particular Act provides that «given the specificity of personal data processing in different areas professional associations can develop their own corporate codes of conduct in order to ensure effective protection of personal data subjects' rights and to facilitate compliance with the law."

Representing Vasil Kisil & Partners law firm associate Vladyslav Podolyak shared his collaboration with the European Business Association on developing such code of conduct for the protection of personal data in the field of information technology. "This code has already been approved by the State Service of Ukraine on Personal Data Protection. The document represents best practices in the enforceability of personal data protection and explains how to apply the law. This Code allows us to be more dynamic than the legislator as far as regulation of personal data protection as it is applied in modern information technologies is concerned", - said Vladyslav Podolyak.