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21/06/2023
Yulia Smur­ova speaks at the AHK An­nu­al CFO Con­fer­ence 2023
On 21 June Yulia Smur­ova, tax coun­sel at SEAM­LESS Leg­al, will speak at the an­nu­al CFO con­fer­ence or­gan­ised by the Rus­si­an-Ger­man Cham­ber of Com­mer­ceThe top­ics she will cov­er: Cur­rency reg­u­la­tion and con­trol:...
02/06/2023
Uni­fied Bio­met­ric Sys­tem: New rules for pro­cessing bio­met­rics
From 1 June 2023, a pro­hib­i­tion on pro­cessing spe­cif­ic bio­met­ric per­son­al data out­side the Uni­fied Bio­met­ric Sys­tem (the “UBS”) will come in­to force. This will af­fect the abil­ity of com­mer­cial or­gan­isa­tions to pro­cess cer­tain types of bio­met­ric data.The UBS was cre­ated pur­su­ant to Fed­er­al Law No. 572* dated 29 Decem­ber 2022, which also reg­u­lates the pro­ced­ures of iden­ti­fic­a­tion and au­then­tic­a­tion of in­di­vidu­als by means of bio­met­ric per­son­al data (the “Law”).What is the Uni­fied Bio­met­ric Sys­tem?The UBS is a state in­form­a­tion sys­tem un­der which bio­met­ric per­son­al data of in­di­vidu­als is col­lec­ted and stored for sub­sequent iden­ti­fic­a­tion and au­then­tic­a­tion.The UBS cur­rently in­cludes the fol­low­ing types of bio­met­ric per­son­al data: (a) an im­age of a per­son; and (b) a re­cord of a per­son’s voice (“Bio­met­ric Data”). This list may be ex­ten­ded after 1 Septem­ber 2024.The Law stip­u­lates that Bio­met­ric Data for iden­ti­fic­a­tion pur­poses (i.e. es­tab­lish­ing a per­son’s iden­tity through their Bio­met­ric Data) and for au­then­tic­a­tion pur­poses (i.e. con­firm­ing that the per­son who provided Bio­met­ric Data is who they claim to be) can only be stored in the UBS.Iden­ti­fic­a­tion based on Bio­met­ric Data can only be car­ried out by the op­er­at­or of the UBS, JSC “Centre of Bio­met­ric Tech­no­lo­gies”.Au­then­tic­a­tion us­ing the data con­tained in the UBS can be car­ried out either by the op­er­at­or of the UBS or by spe­cially ac­cred­ited or­gan­isa­tions.Com­pan­ies are not al­lowed to in­de­pend­ently carry out iden­ti­fic­a­tion or au­then­tic­a­tion us­ing Bio­met­ric Data.What should com­pan­ies do?By 30 Septem­ber 2023, all or­gan­isa­tions that have been stor­ing Bio­met­ric Data used for iden­ti­fic­a­tion or au­then­tic­a­tion must trans­fer it to the UBS, hav­ing no­ti­fied the rel­ev­ant in­di­vidu­als 30 days be­fore the trans­fer. Af­ter­wards, the data must be de­leted.Com­pan­ies can sub­sequently au­then­tic­ate in­di­vidu­als based on Bio­met­ric Data only through the UBS or ac­cred­ited or­gan­isa­tions, but only in the event that the in­di­vidu­als in ques­tion have giv­en their vol­un­tary con­sent.For ex­ample, a vis­it­or ac­cess con­trol sys­tem that is based on auto­mated im­age read­ing or voice au­then­tic­a­tion can only be im­ple­men­ted through in­teg­ra­tion with the UBS or a tool used by an ac­cred­ited or­gan­isa­tion. Such au­then­tic­a­tion may not be per­formed in­de­pend­ently.If au­then­tic­ated through the UBS, the per­son’s iden­tity is deemed to be es­tab­lished, and com­pan­ies need not col­lect any ad­di­tion­al data to con­firm the in­di­vidu­al’s iden­tity.The UBS need not be used when:an au­thor­ised of­ficer manu­ally iden­ti­fies or au­then­tic­ates a per­son based on Bio­met­ric Data. For ex­ample, ac­cess con­trol by com­par­ing a photo with the vis­it­or who is present­ing it; an­doth­er bio­met­ric per­son­al data (i.e. not im­ages or voices) are used. Com­pan­ies may use oth­er bio­met­ric data (i.e. data char­ac­ter­ising bio­lo­gic­al and physiolo­gic­al fea­tures) without re­stric­tion provided they com­ply with the Per­son­al Data Law*.Li­ab­il­ityNo spe­cif­ic li­ab­il­ity for breach of the Law has been es­tab­lished to date; how­ever, a bill* has re­cently been sub­mit­ted to the State Duma which would es­tab­lish fines for of­fences in­volving the use of Bio­met­ric Data. The bill could be ad­op­ted dur­ing this spring ses­sion.It is pro­posed to amend part 2 of art­icle 13.11 of the Rus­si­an Code on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Of­fences to es­tab­lish the pen­al­ties for us­ing Bio­met­ric Data in vi­ol­a­tion of the re­quire­ments es­tab­lished by Rus­si­an le­gis­la­tion in the sphere of per­son­al data.For leg­al en­tit­ies, fines can range from RUB 300,000 to RUB 700,000 (from EUR 3,468 to EUR 8,091) (for re­peated vi­ol­a­tion from RUB 1m to RUB 1.5m (from EUR 11,559 to EUR 17,339)).Re­com­mend­a­tionsGiv­en the forth­com­ing entry in­to force of the Law’s pro­vi­sions pro­hib­it­ing the pro­cessing of Bio­met­ric Data out­side the UBS, we re­com­mend that com­pan­ies:check wheth­er they cur­rently use any pro­cesses to identi­fy and au­then­tic­ate in­di­vidu­als based on Bio­met­ric Data or plan to im­ple­ment any such sys­tems; an­deither ad­just the pro­cesses so as to ex­clude the ap­plic­a­tion of the Law or im­ple­ment iden­ti­fic­a­tion/au­then­tic­a­tion through the UBS in ex­ist­ing and planned busi­ness pro­cesses.* In Rus­si­an
07/06/2023
SEAM­LESS Leg­al and Statan­docs joint we­bin­ar on medi­cine ad­vert­ising
Please join our we­bin­ar which we or­gan­ise to­geth­er with Statan­docs, one of the mar­ket lead­ers in medi­cines re­gis­tra­tion.We will dis­cuss leg­al re­quire­ments to the ad­vert­ising and pro­mo­tion of medi­cines...
08/06/2023
Eng­lish Law Day in Yerevan
Mikhail Ivan­nikov, at­tor­ney-at-law, seni­or as­so­ci­ate of the dis­pute res­ol­u­tion prac­tice at SEAM­LESS Leg­al will par­ti­cip­ate in Eng­lish Law Day in Yerevan on 8 June 2023. The speak­ers will ex­plore top­ics...
02/06/2023
Di­git­al is now | IT com­pan­ies ac­cred­it­a­tion and audits: seize the mo­ment
On 1 June 1 2023, the dead­line is due for con­firm­ing the ac­cred­it­a­tion of IT com­pan­ies to re­ceive state sup­port. The Min­istry of Di­git­al Trans­form­a­tion has already an­nounced the launch of rel­ev­ant ap­plic­a­tions...
31/05/2023
SEAM­LESS Leg­al at the AEB An­nu­al IP Con­fer­ence 2023
Ant­on Bankovskiy and Al­isa Mikheeva, ex­perts of our IP prac­tice, will speak at the AEB an­nu­al con­fer­ence “In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Rights: Re­cent Trends, Jur­is­pru­dence, Prob­lems and Solu­tions”As the...
22/05/2023
AHK Phar­ma­ceut­ic­als and Health­care Com­mit­tee meet­ing
On 22 May 2023, Vse­volod Ty­upa will speak on the Com­puls­ory li­cens­ing at the meet­ing or­gan­ised by the Phar­ma­ceut­ic­als and Health­care Com­mit­tee of the Rus­si­an-Ger­man Cham­ber of Com­merce (AHK):For re­gis­tra­tion...
24/05/2023
Risks&Claims 2023
On 24 May 2023, SEAM­LESS Leg­al, Rus­si­an Na­tion­al Re­in­sur­ance Com­pany and the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­ation of In­sur­ance Ad­justers will host a joint we­bin­ar of the Risks&Claims series on the elec­tri­city grid fa­cil­it­ies...
18/05/2023
Vladis­lav Eltovsky at Leg­al Com­mit­tee of the Rus­si­an-Ger­man Cham­ber of...
Vladis­lav Eltovskiy, Head of Di­git­al Law at SEAM­LESS Leg­al, will take part in the Leg­al Com­mit­tee of the Rus­si­an-Ger­man Cham­ber of Com­merce.Vladis­lav will make a brief over­view of the on­line ad­vert­ising...
11/05/2023
SEAM­LESS Leg­al at the XI St. Peters­burg In­ter­na­tion­al Leg­al For­um
Ant­on Bankovskiy, Part­ner, Head of In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty at SEAM­LESS Leg­al, will take part in the XI St. Peters­burg In­ter­na­tion­al Leg­al For­um, which will be held on 11-13 May 2023.Ant­on will par­ti­cip­ate...
28/04/2023
The Min­istry of Fin­ance re­com­mends sev­en SROs for the ex­pert re­view of...
28 April 2023
27/04/2023
Rus­si­an Pres­id­ent im­poses in­ter­im ad­min­is­tra­tion on the first Rus­si­an as­sets...
27 April 2023