Lawfulness - Processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences

3 pending referrals

Referral C-80/23 (Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti, 14 Feb 2023)

Referral C-740/22 (Endemol Shine Finland, 2 Dec 2022)

Referral C-115/22 (NADA and Others, 17 Feb 2022)

1 preliminary ruling

of 22 Jun 2021, C-439/19 (Latvijas Republikas Saeima)

Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 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 applying to the processing of personal data relating to penalty points imposed on drivers of vehicles for road traffic offences.

The provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in particular Article 5(1), Article 6(1)(e) and Article 10 thereof, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which obliges the public body responsible for the register in which penalty points imposed on drivers of vehicles for road traffic offences are entered to make those data accessible to the public, without the person requesting access having to establish a specific interest in obtaining the data.

The provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in particular Article 5(1), Article 6(1)(e) and Article 10 thereof, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which authorises the public body responsible for the register in which penalty points imposed on drivers of vehicles for road traffic offences are entered to disclose those data to economic operators for re-use.

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