Regarding the Amendment to the VERBİS Registration Obligation

Dear Member,

With reference to the letter sent to our Chamber by TOBB, as you are aware, by the Personal Data Protection Board decision No. 2018/87 published in the Official Gazette dated 18.08.2018, natural or legal person data controllers with fewer than 50 annual employees and an annual total balance sheet of less than 25 million TL, whose main field of activity is not the processing of special categories of personal data, were exempted from the obligation to register with the Data Controllers Registry (VERBİS).

Taking into account that, since the date of publication of the Board decision, businesses in our country have grown in terms of economic indicators, their business volumes have expanded, and the 25 million TL limit adopted in 2018 has remained low compared to current annual total balance sheets, it has been decided to raise the exemption limit in Board decision No. 2018/87 from 25 million Turkish Lira to 100 million Turkish Lira.

In this context, natural or legal person data controllers with fewer than 50 annual employees and an annual total balance sheet of less than 100 million Turkish lira, whose main field of activity is not the processing of special categories of personal data, are exempted from the obligation to register with VERBİS.

Kind regards,

Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry