… This case therefore affords the Court an opportunity to clarify the scope of Directive (EU) 2016/680 (2) in relation to
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(3) and to consolidate its case-law on the proportionality of the processing (collection) of personal data by a criminal court to the objective pursued.
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… (eds), Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 79 to 132, in particular p. 104, section 7.2.4, which also cites the minutes of the twelfth meeting of the Commission expert group on
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and Directive (EU) 2016/680, of 2 October 2017, which records the Member States’ agreement that that directive should apply to criminal courts (document available at: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult? …
… See also the minutes of the fifteenth meeting of the Commission expert group on the
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and Directive (EU) 2016/680, of 20 February 2018, paragraph 5 of which refers to the difficulties encountered in transposing the directive in this regard and notes that some Member States stated that their prosecutors had the same level of independence as their judges (available at: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/meetings/consult? …