The Data Protection Board (“Board”) of Turkey has the right to bring exemptions for the registration to the Data Controllers Registry i.e. VERBIS as per Article 16 of the Personal Data Protection Law numbered 6698 (“Law”).
Based on the said Article, the Board has brought exemption to various data controllers for the registration to the VERBIS system with its earlier resolution numbered 2018/32 and published in the Official Gazette dated 15 May 2018 and more recent resolutions numbered 2018/68, 2018/75 and 2018/87, which were published in the Official Gazette dated 18 August 2018.
These data controllers that can benefit from the exemption are as follows:
For the rest of the data controllers, the related time periods for the registrations are also envisaged under the Board’s resolution numbered 2018/88 published in the Official Gazette dated 18 August 2018. Please see the following table for the related dates:
Data Controllers |
Starting Date |
Deadline |
Natural and legal person data controllers who have more than 50 employees in a year or more than TRY 25,000,000 total annual balance sheet |
01.10.2018 |
30.09.2019 |
Natural and legal person data controllers residing abroad |
01.10.2018 |
30.09.2019 |
Natural and legal person data controllers who have less than 50 employees in a year and less than TRY 25,000,000 total annual balance sheet but whose main activities cover processing of sensitive personal data |
01.01.2019 |
31.03.2020 |
Public institutions and organizations who are data controllers |
01.04.2019 |
30.06.2020 |
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