The law makes the second amendment to the general legal regime for the protection of personal data of natural persons approved by Law no. 133/V/2001, of January 22, as amended by Law no. 41/VIII/2013, of September 17.
The Data Protection Act of 2012 establishes a Data Protection Commission, to protect the privacy of the individual and personal data by regulating the processing of personal information, to provide the process to obtain, hold, use or disclose personal information and for related matters.