Cybersecurity Policy Report, Slovakia Eyes New Data Protection Regulations, (Mar 18, 2025)
By Tony Foley
The Office for the Protection of Personal Data for the Slovak Republic (ÚOOÚ) announced last week that it was developing new regulations in the area of personal data protection.
Changes in existing regulations are needed to address developments in social relations and technologies, an increase in cyber attacks, and the advent of artificial intelligence, the ÚOOÚ said in a news release.
In particular, the agency’s new rules are designed to ensure the following:
Elimination of current “dual track regulation” under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and currently valid Slovak law to create a unified procedure for personal data protection;
Harmonization of EU law and Schengen requirements;
Reduction of the administrative burden for the public and private sectors in assessing the impacts on personal data protection;
Introduction of codes of conduct in the area of personal data protection within the scope of the ÚOOÚ; and
Transposition of the EU Law Enforcement Directive (LED), for purposes of preventing, investigating, detecting or prosecuting criminal offenses or for the purposes of criminal sanctions, through a separate law designed to simplify orientation and application in practice.
"The protection of personal data and access to it is currently more important than ever. It is therefore appropriate to make efforts and act so that the protection of personal data is not perceived only as an administrative burden but as an automatic part of the work habits and behavior of individuals in everyday life," said ÚOOÚ President Zuzana Valková. "The new legal regulations in the field of personal data protection will also help to set standards at the level we know in practice in other EU countries and subsequently it will be the task of the [ÚOOÚ] to increase awareness in this area.”
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