Case C-229/23, HYA and Others II: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 13 June 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against SS, IP, ZI, DD, HYA (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)
Date: 2024-06-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: criminal proceedings, data-processing law, offence, personal data, protection of communications, right to justice, surveillance, telecommunications








C_202404565EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/4565


29.7.2024






Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 13 June 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski gradski sad – Bulgaria) – Criminal proceedings against SS, IP, ZI, DD, HYA


(Case C-229/23,
                (1)
HYA and Others II)

(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)
(C/2024/4565)
Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Sofiyski gradski sad

Parties in the main proceedings

SS, IP, ZI, DD, HYA

Interested party: Sofiyska gradska prokuratura

Operative part of the judgment

Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications), read in the light of the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
must be interpreted as not precluding provisions of national law which require that a judicial decision authorising listening, tapping and storage in respect of communications, without the consent of the users concerned, must itself contain an express statement of reasons in writing, irrespective of the existence of a reasoned application made by the criminal authorities.


(1)  
            OJ C 261, 24.7.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/4565/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)