62023CJ0229_SUM
Case C‑229/23
Criminal proceedings
v
HYA and Others
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad)
Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 13 June 2024
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Telecommunications sector – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 15(1) – Restriction of the confidentiality of electronic communications – Judicial decision authorising listening, tapping and storage in respect of telephone conversations of persons suspected of having committed a serious intentional offence – National legislation requiring that that decision must itself contain an express statement of reasons in writing, irrespective of the existence of a reasoned application made by the criminal authorities – Second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Obligation to state reasons)
Approximation of laws – Telecommunications sector – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58 – Power of Member States to limit the scope of certain rights and obligations – Derogation from the principle of the confidentiality of electronic communications – National measures to ensure the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences – National legislation requiring an express statement of reasons in writing for national judicial decisions authorising, without the consent of the users concerned, listening, tapping and storage in respect of communications – Existence or absence of a reasoned application on the part of the criminal authorities – Whether permissible – Obligation to state reasons – No infringement of that obligation
(Art. 6(1) and (2) TEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47, second para.; European Parliament and Council Directive 2002/58, Arts 5 and 15(1))
(see paragraphs 43-54, operative part)
See the text of the decision.