Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 24 March 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Midden-Nederland – Netherlands) – X, Z v Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
(Case C-245/20) 1
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Competence of the supervisory authority – Article 55(3) – Processing operations of courts acting in their judicial capacity – Concept – Making available to a journalist of documents arising from court proceedings containing personal data)
Language of the case: Dutch
Referring court
Rechtbank Midden-Nederland
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: X, Z
Defendant: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
Operative part of the judgment
Article 55(3) 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 meaning that the fact that a court makes temporarily available to journalists documents from court proceedings containing personal data in order to enable them better to report on the course of those proceedings falls within the exercise, by that court, of its ‘judicial capacity’, within the meaning of that provision.
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1 OJ C 297, 7.9.2020.