Arranged for a procedure to check the reputation of healthcare professionals from the perspective of personal data

One of the biggest international pharmaceutical companies instructed Pepeliaev Group to arrange for a procedure to check the reputation of healthcare professionals from the perspective of legislation on personal data should the company decide to do business with them.

Our lawyers analysed the legal ground on which personal data of healthcare professionals was to be processed, including sector-based requirements that apply to pharmaceutical companies. As a result, the client received a legal memo that included a description of the following:

• the applicable requirements of Russian legislation and clarifications on how those requirements should be applied in practice;

• the risks associated with the procedure to check the reputation of a healthcare professional not being in line with the requirements of legislation on personal data;

• the ways to ensure a legal ground for the processing of personal data.