January 2020 Blog

Turkey: The data protection board extends deadline for registration with data controllers' registry again

The Data Protection Board (Board) has recently resolved to extend the deadline for registration with the Data Controllers’ Registry Information System (“VERBIS”). The decision no. 2019/387 on the extension was announced on the board’s website on 27 December 2019.
The Extensions for the VERBIS registration deadline are as follows:

Data Controller		Last date for registration
Real person and legal entity data controllers who employ more than 50 employees annually or achieved a total yearly actives on the balance sheet of 25 million Turkish Liras		30.06.2020
Real person or legal entity data controllers residing abroad		30.06.2020
Real/legal person data controller which has (i) less than 50 employees annually and (ii) less than 25 million Turkish Liras annual financial balance and of which the main area of activity is processing of sensitive personal data		30.09.2020
Public institution and organization data controllers		31.12.2020

The obligation to register with the registry is one of the fundamental obligations of the data controllers under the Personal Data Protection Law, and non-compliance with this obligation may lead to administrative fines up to TRY 1,000,000.
More information and further details of the registration obligations may be found in one of our earlier articles from July 2016 and July 2018.

Dr Gökce Uzar Schüller, Attorney
Frankfurt am Main and Istanbul