Russian Federation
[RU] Personal data amendments enter into force sooner
IRIS 2015-2:1/30
Andrei Richter
Comenius University (Bratislava)
On 31 December 2014, President Putin of the Russian Federation signed into law a federal statute adopted by the State Duma on 17 December 2014. It amends the date of entry into force of the Federal Statute of 21 July 2014 N 242-FZ “On amendments to particular legal acts of the Russian Federation related to the specifics of the order of processing personal data in information-telecommunication networks” (IRIS 2014-8/35).
Originally the amendments were to enter into force on 1 September 2016, but now the date has been pushed to 1 January 2015.
References
- O внесении изменения в статью 4 Федерального Закона "О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Российской Федерации в части уточнения порядка обработки персональных данных в информационно-телекоммуникационных сетях"
- Federal Statute of 31 December 2014 N 526-FZ “On an amendment to Article 4 of the Federal Statute “On amendments to particular legal acts of the Russian Federation related to the specifics of the order of processing personal data in information-telecommunication networks”
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This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory.