Case C-757/22, Meta Platforms Ireland (Representative action): Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 July 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof – Germany) – Meta Platforms Ireland Limited v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – First sentence of Article 12(1) – Transparency of information – Article 13(1)(c) and (e) – Obligation of the controller to provide information – Article 80(2) – Representation of data subjects by a consumer protection association – Representative action in the absence of a mandate and independently of the infringement of specific rights of a data subject – Action based on infringement by the controller of its obligation to provide information – Concept of infringement of [the rights of a data subject] as a result of the processing)
Date: 2024-07-11
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: collective redress, consumer movement, data protection, data-processing law, personal data, protection of privacy








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C/2024/5198


2.9.2024






Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 11 July 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof – Germany) – Meta Platforms Ireland Limited v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.


(Case C-757/22,
                (1)
Meta Platforms Ireland (Representative action))

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 - First sentence of Article 12(1) - Transparency of information - Article 13(1)(c) and (e) - Obligation of the controller to provide information - Article 80(2) - Representation of data subjects by a consumer protection association - Representative action in the absence of a mandate and independently of the infringement of specific rights of a data subject - Action based on infringement by the controller of its obligation to provide information - Concept of ‘infringement of [the rights of a data subject] as a result of the processing’)
(C/2024/5198)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesgerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

Respondents: Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.

Operative part of the judgment

Article 80(2) 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 condition that an authorised entity, in order to be able to bring a representative action under that provision, must assert that it considers the rights of a data subject provided for in that regulation to have been infringed ‘as a result of the processing’, within the meaning of that provision, is satisfied where that entity asserts that the infringement of the data subject’s rights occurs in the course of the processing of personal data and results from the controller’s infringement of its obligation, under the first sentence of Article 12(1) and Article 13(1)(c) and (e) of that regulation, to provide the data subject, in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, in clear and plain language, with information relating to the purposes of that data processing and to the recipients of such data, at the latest when they are collected.


(1)  
            OJ C 104, 20.3.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5198/oj
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