IP case law Court of Justice

Referral C-61/22 (Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden, 1 Feb 2022)



Does the obligation to take fingerprints and store them in identity cards in accordance with Article 3(5) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement (OJ 2019 L 188, p. 67) infringe higher-ranking EU law, in particular
(a) Article 77(3) TFEU
(b) Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter
(c) Article 35(10) of the GDPR

and is it therefore invalid on one of those grounds?


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