CELEX: 62019CA0272
Language: en
Date: 2020-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-272/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 9 July 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden — Germany) — VQ v Land Hessen (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 267 TFEU — Concept of ‘court or tribunal’ — Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — Scope — Article 2(2)(a) — Meaning of ‘activity which falls outside the scope of Union law’ — Article 4(7) — Concept of ‘controller’ — Petitions Committee of the parliament of a Federated State of a Member State — Article 15 — Right of access by the data subject)

31.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 287/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 9 July 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden — Germany) — VQ v Land Hessen
      (Case C-272/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 267 TFEU - Concept of ‘court or tribunal’ - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 - Scope - Article 2(2)(a) - Meaning of ‘activity which falls outside the scope of Union law’ - Article 4(7) - Concept of ‘controller’ - Petitions Committee of the parliament of a Federated State of a Member State - Article 15 - Right of access by the data subject)
      (2020/C 287/16)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: VQ
      
         Defendant: Land Hessen
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 4(7) 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, in so far as a Petitions Committee of the parliament of a Federated State of a Member State determines, alone or with others, the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, that committee must be categorised as a ‘controller’, within the meaning of that provision, and consequently the processing of personal data carried out by that committee falls within the scope of that regulation and, in particular, of Article 15 thereof.
      
         (1)  OJ C 187, 3.6.2019.