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… sitting in extended composition, the Fourth of the Court, pursuant to Article 60(3) of the Rules of Procedure, requested the Court to refer those cases to the . 43 On 18 March 2025, the Court decided to refer those cases to the of the Court and reopened the oral part of the procedure. …

… The lawfulness of the Commission decision shall be subject to review only by the Court of Justice. …’ The GDPR 12 (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ 2016 L 119, p. 1, and corrigendum OJ 2018 L 127, p. 2; ‘the GDPR’), provides in Article 9, entitled ‘Processing …

… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: 1. Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘communications’, within the meaning of that article, covers business emails exchanged between employees and managers of an undertaking by means of that undertaking’s messaging service. 2. …

… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: 1. …

… Provisional text JUDGMENT OF THE COURT ( ) 14 July 2026 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - (EU) / - Article 2 - Material scope - Articles 5 and 6 - Principles relating to processing and the lawfulness of processing - Article 9 - Concept of ‘data concerning health’ - Article 10 - Concept of ‘personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences’ - Combating doping in sport - Online …

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… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: 1. …

… (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ 2016 L 119, p. 1)], and of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council [of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (OJ 1997 L 18, p. 1)]; (c) the provisions …

… Provisional text JUDGMENT OF THE COURT ( ) 19 May 2026 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 50 TEU - Article 288 TFEU - Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community - Court of a Member State seised before the end of the transition period provided for in that agreement - Application by the courts of the forum of the law of another State - United Kingdom legislation transposing …

… JUDGMENT OF THE COURT ( ) 10 February 2026 (*) (Appeal - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - (EU) / - Article 63 - Consistency mechanism - Article 65 - Dispute resolution by the European Data Protection Board - Binding decision - Action for annulment - First paragraph of Article 263 TFEU - Act open to challenge - Fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU - Condition that the measure against which the action has been brought must …

… Legal context 2 Recitals 10 and 143 of (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ 2016 L 119, p. 1, and corrigendum OJ 2018 L 127, p. 2; ‘the GDPR’) state: ‘(10) In order to ensure a consistent and high level of protection of natural persons and to remove the …

… Le and I. Vereecken, acting as Agents, and G. Haumont, E. de Lophem, P. Vernet, avocats, and G. Ryelandt, advocaat, defendant at first instance, supported by: Federal Republic of Germany, represented initially by J. Möller and P.-L. Krüger, and subsequently by J. Möller, acting as Agents, intervener in the appeal, THE COURT ( ), composed of K. Lenaerts, President, T. von Danwitz (Rapporteur), Vice-President, K. Jürimäe, C. Lycourgos, I. Jarukaitis, I. Ziemele, O. …

… / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC 37. …

… What is more, in the absence of any proceedings before them, the Italian courts have had no opportunity to examine – whether on the basis of the parties’ submissions or of their own motion – any issue relating to the application and interpretation of EU law provisions (in particular, the General Data Protection ( (EU) /)), seeking, where appropriate, a preliminary ruling from the CJEU (see, mutatis mutandis, Mansouri, cited above, § 115). …

… (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the General Data Protection Regulation, “the GDPR”) (OJ 2016 L 119/1) entered into force on 24 May 2016 and has applied since 25 May 2018. 38. …

… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: 1. …

… JUDGMENT OF THE COURT ( ) 2 December 2025 (*1) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of personal data - (EU) / - Article 4(7) - Concept of ‘controller’ - Responsibility of the operator of an online marketplace for the publication of personal data contained in advertisements placed on its online marketplace by user advertisers - Article 5(2) - Principle of accountability - Article 26 - Joint control with user advertisers - Article 9(1) and (2)(a) - Advertisements …

… Article 1(5)(b) of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’), and Article 2(4) of /, must be interpreted as meaning that the operator of an online marketplace, as controller, within the meaning of Article 4(7) of /, of the personal data contained in advertisements published …

… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: 1. …

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… Where such a body or entity processes personal data for purposes other than for the purposes of this Directive, (EU) / [of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ 2016 L 119, p. 1)] applies. …

… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: 1. …

… Provisional text JUDGMENT OF THE COURT ( ) 4 October 2024 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of personal data - (EU) / - Chapter VIII - Remedies - Medicinal products marketed by a pharmacist on an online platform - Action brought before the national civil courts by a competitor of that pharmacist on the basis of the prohibition of unfair commercial practices for infringement by the pharmacist of the obligations laid down by that regulation - Standing …

… Kranenborg, acting as Agents, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 25 April 2024, gives the following Judgment 1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 9(1) and the provisions in Chapter VIII of (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95 …

… Kranenborg, acting as Agents, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 14 September 2023, gives the following Judgment 1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 5(1)(a) and (c), Article 6(3), and Articles 9 and 10 of (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing …

… On those grounds, the Court ( ) hereby rules: The request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängige Schiedskommission Wien (Independent Arbitration Committee, Vienna, Austria), made by decision of 21 December 2021, is inadmissible. [Signatures] * Language of the case: German. …

… Schiedskommission Wien (Independent Arbitration Committee, Vienna, Austria), made by decision of 21 December 2021, received at the Court on 17 February 2022, in the proceedings SO interested parties: Nationale Anti-Doping Agentur Austria GmbH (NADA), Österreichischer Leichtathletikverband (ÖLV), World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), THE COURT ( ), composed of K. …

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… (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC) of 30 June 2003 (Ordinary Supplement to GURI No 174 of 29 July 2003), in the version applicable to the dispute in the main proceedings (‘Legislative Decree No 196/2003’), provides as follows: ‘Within the retention period laid down by law, if there is sufficient evidence …

… Provisional text JUDGMENT OF THE COURT ( ) 30 April 2024 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector - Confidentiality of communications - Providers of electronic communications services - Directive 2002/58/EC - Article 15(1) - Articles 7, 8, 11 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Access to those data requested by a national authority having competence to prosecute offences of …