Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-687/21BL v MediaMarktSaturn Hagen-Iserlohn GmbH
- Decided
- 2024-01-25
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2024:72
- CELEX
- 62021CJ0687
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Interpretation of Articles 5, 24, 32 and 82 – Assessment of the validity of Article 82 – Inadmissibility of the request for an assessment of validity – Right to compensation for damage caused by data processing which infringes that regulation – Transmission of data to an unauthorised third party on account of an error made by the employees of the controller – Assessment of the appropriateness of the protection measures implemented by the controller – Compensatory function fulfilled by the right to compensation – Effect of the severity of the infringement – Whether necessary to establish the existence of damage caused by that infringement – Concept of ‘non-material damage’.
Interprets
- GDPR — Regulation (EU) 2016/67932016R0679
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