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… JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 1 August 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Articles 7, 8 and 52(1) - Directive 95/46/EC - Article 7(c) - Article 8(1) - (EU) / - Point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) and the second subparagraph of Article 6(3) - Article 9(1) - Processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation …

… Article 8(1) of Directive 95/46 and Article 9(1) of / must be interpreted as meaning that the publication, on the website of the public authority responsible for collecting and checking the content of declarations of private interests, of personal data that are liable to disclose indirectly the sexual orientation of a natural person constitutes processing of special categories of personal data, for the purpose of those provisions. …

… Nardi, acting as Agents, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 9 December 2021, gives the following Judgment 1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) and Article 9(1) 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 …

… The Spanish Data Protection Agency is responsible for supervising the application of the regulations in force regarding [i] the protection of personal data for the purpose of protecting the rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing and, in particular, the exercising of the functions established by Article 57, and [ii] the powers provided in Article 58 of (EU) / of the European Parliament and of the Council ... and in Organic Law 3/2018 ... …

… JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (First Chamber) 22 June 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - (EU) / - Second sentence of Article 38(3) - Data protection officer - Prohibition of the dismissal, by a controller or processor, of a data protection officer or of the imposition, by a controller or processor, of a penalty on him or her for performing his or her tasks - Legal basis - Article 16 TFEU - Requirement …

… Nardi, acting as Agents, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 27 January 2022, gives the following Judgment 1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation and validity of the second sentence of Article 38(3) 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/ …

… On those grounds, the Court (First Chamber) hereby rules: The second sentence of Article 38(3) 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), must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which provides that a controller or a processor may terminate …

… JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 21 June 2022 (*)(i) Table of contents (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Processing of personal data - Passenger Name Record (PNR) data - (EU) / - Article 2(2)(d) - Scope - Directive (EU) 2016/681 - Use of PNR data of air passengers of flights operated between the European Union and third countries - Power to include data of air passengers of flights operated within the European Union - Automated processing of those data - Retention period …

… O’Flaherty, acting as Agents, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 27 January 2022, gives the following Judgment 1 This reference for a preliminary ruling, in essence, concerns: - the interpretation of Article 2(2)(d) and Article 23 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 …

… OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL PITRUZZELLA delivered on 9 June 2022 (1) Case C-154/21 RW v Österreichische Post AG (Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Supreme Court, Austria)) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of personal data - (EU) / - Article 15(1)(c) - Right of access of the data subject - Information regarding the specific recipient or the categories of recipient to whom the data have been disclosed) 1. …

… That, in essence, is the question put to the Court of Justice in the present reference for a preliminary ruling, made by the Oberster Gerichtshof (Supreme Court, Austria), concerning the interpretation of Article 15(1)(c) 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 …

… In light of all the foregoing considerations, I propose that the Court answer the question referred for a preliminary ruling by the Oberster Gerichtshof (Supreme Court, Austria) as follows: Article 15(1)(c) 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) must be interpreted …

… , storage and consultation of those data, for the purposes of mounting the defence of the public prosecutor’s office in civil proceedings in which it is being sued for damages as a result of its conduct in the performance of its duties constitutes ‘processing of personal data’ for the purposes of Article 4(1) of /. (4) The lawfulness of that processing may, in principle, come within the scope of point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) of /. 1 Original …

… A basic principle of (EU) / (2), which is the general legislation on the protection of personal data, and of Directive (EU) 2016/680 (3) (lex specialis on the same subject in relation to criminal proceedings) is the limitation of the collection of personal data and the processing of such data to the specific purposes stipulated by law. 2. …

… OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERAL CAMPOS SÁNCHEZ-BORDONA delivered on 19 May 2022 (1) Case C-180/21 VS v Inspektor v Inspektorata kam Visshia sadeben savet, intervener: Teritorialno otdelenie - Petrich kam Rayonna prokuratura - Blagoevgrad (Request for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad - Blagoevgrad (Administrative Court, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - (EU) / - …

… (EU) / - Definition of consent - Article 17 - Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) - Article 5(2), Article 17(2), Article 19 and Article 24 - Information obligations and responsibility of the controller) I. …

… It raises important issues as to the interpretation of (EU) / of the European Parliament and 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), (2) Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the …

… (EU) / of the European Parliament and 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), a subscriber’s ‘consent’, as defined in Article 4(11) of the General Data Protection Regulation, is required in order to include his or her contact details in directories published by a telecommunications operator and/or by other providers …

… JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Third Chamber) 28 April 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - (EU) / - Article 80 - Representation of the data subjects by a not-for-profit association - Representative action brought by a consumer protection association in the absence of a mandate and independently of the infringement of specific rights of a data subject - Action based on the prohibition of unfair commercial …

… Kranenborg, acting as Agents, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 2 December 2021, gives the following Judgment 1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 80(1) and (2) and Article 84(1) 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 …

… On those grounds, the Court (Third Chamber) hereby rules: Article 80(2) 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) must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which allows a consumer protection association to bring legal proceedings, in the absence …

… In that regard, the applicants state that interim proceedings seeking an order suspending the use of the CovidScanBE application, on the grounds of multiple infringements 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), have been brought before …

… (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)]. …

… affect legitimate uses, such as uses under exceptions or limitations provided for in Union law, and shall not lead to any identification of individual users nor to the processing of personal data, except in accordance with Directive 2002/58/EC [of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (OJ 2002 L 201, p. 37)] and …