Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2022:755
Date: 2022-10-06
Language of the case: Swedish
Subject matter: Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties;Data protection
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Sweden

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta domstolen (Sweden) lodged on 23 April 2021 – Norra Stockholm Bygg AB v Per Nycander AB (Case C-268/21) Language of the case: Swedish Referring court Högsta domstolen Parties to the main proceedings Applicant: Norra Stockholm Bygg AB Defendant: Per Nycander AB Other party to the proceedings: Entral AB Questions referred Does Article 6(3) and (4) of the General Data Protection Regulation 1 also impose a requirement on national procedural legislation relating to disclosure obligations? If Question 1 is answered in the affirmative, does the General Data Protection Regulation mean that regard must also be had to the interests of the data subjects when a decision on disclosure must be made which involves the processing of personal data? In such circumstances, does EU law establish any requirements concerning how, in detail, that decision should be made? ____________ 1 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) (OJ 2016 L 119, p. 1).