Article 86Processing and public access to official documents

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Judgments of the Court of Justice

2 decisions

• C-710/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-04-03

  L. H. v Ministerstvo zdravotnictví

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4 – Definitions – Article 6 – Lawfulness of processing – Article 86 – Public access to official documents – Data concerning the representative of a legal person – Case-law of a national court imposing an obligation to inform and consult the data subject prior to disclosure of official documents containing such data.

• C-740/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-03-07

  Endemol Shine Finland Oy

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 2, 4, 6, 10 and 86 – Data held by a court relating to the criminal convictions of a natural person – Oral disclosure of such data to a commercial company on account of a competition organised by that company – Concept of ‘processing of personal data’ – National legislation governing access to those data – Reconciliation between the right of public access to official documents and the protection of personal data.