10 August 2020 – Any company processing personal data in an automated or manual record system needs such notification. These data refer to the information about the consumer, employee, his salary, data about domicile, etc.

The spectrum of personal data is so wide that it is very difficult for Moldovan companies to comply with all the requirements required by the National Center for Personal Data Protection (CNPDCP) to obtain the status of personal data operator. Some companies say that the notification can take up to 7 months.

Since the approval of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data in 2012, only 3000 enterprises out of 240 thousand have passed the notification procedure as a personal data operator. According to the law, if the company operates with personal data and is not notified to the CNPDCP, it violates the law.

The issue is debated by the business community jointly with representatives of state institutions and international experts in the ad-hoc Working Group “Digitization of the economy” led by the ATIC Association. According to the experts, a solution for the respective problem would be to modify the provisions that oblige the entrepreneurs to obtain from CNPDCP the notification of personal data operator.

Proposals for this solution are yet to be finalized, after which they will be proposed to the authorities for examination and promotion.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the International Finance Corporation’s Investment Climate Reform Project funded by the Government of Sweden’s International Development Agency.