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Subject-matter

Request for a preliminary ruling – Nejvyšší správní soud – Interpretation of Article 3(2) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (OJ 1995 L 281, p. 31) – Processing of personal data ‘by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity’ – Scope – Camera system installed on a family home for the protection of the property, health and life of the owners – Use of such a CCTV system  

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 7 : paragraph 28
• Directive 95/46 -A01 : paragraph 27
• Directive 95/46 -A02 : paragraph 4
• Directive 95/46 -A02LA : paragraph 21
• Directive 95/46 -A02LB : paragraph 23
• Directive 95/46 -A03 : paragraphs 5, 7
• Directive 95/46 -A03P1 : paragraphs 20, 25
• Directive 95/46 -A03P2 : paragraphs 1, 18, 19, 26
• Directive 95/46 -A03P2T2 : paragraphs 31, 33, 35, 39
• Directive 95/46 -A07 : paragraph 6
• Directive 95/46 -A07LF : paragraph 34
• Directive 95/46 -A11P2 : paragraph 34
• Directive 95/46 -A13P1LD : paragraph 34
• Directive 95/46 -A13P1LG : paragraph 34
• Directive 95/46 -A18P1 : paragraph 9
• Directive 95/46 -C10 : paragraphs 3, 27
• Directive 95/46 -C12 : paragraphs 3, 32
• Directive 95/46 -C14 : paragraph 3
• Directive 95/46 -C15 : paragraphs 3, 24
• Directive 95/46 -C16 : paragraphs 3, 24
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -131/12 : paragraphs 27, 29
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -293/12 : paragraph 28
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -473/12 : paragraph 28
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -212/13 : paragraph 31

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 95/46 -A03P2T2

Opinion

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 14 -P2 : point 35
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 7 : points 5, 22, 34, 51, 52, 59, 64
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 8 : points 22, 64
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 8 -P1 : points 6, 39
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 8 -P2 : point 49
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 8 -P3 : point 49
  
• Directive 95/46 : points 1, 19 - 27, 31, 36, 44, 48, 51 - 53, 58, 61, 66, 67
  
• Directive 95/46 -A01 : point 38
  
• Directive 95/46 -A01P1 : point 26
  
• Directive 95/46 -A03 : point 8
  
• Directive 95/46 -A03P1 : point 32
  
• Directive 95/46 -A03P2 : points 1, 17, 21, 32, 40 - 42, 46, 51, 59, 68
  
• Directive 95/46 -A07LF : points 20, 23, 44, 63, 64, 66
  
• Directive 95/46 -C2 : point 26
  
• Directive 95/46 -C10 : points 26, 38
  
• Directive 95/46 -C12 : point 7
  
• Directive 95/46 -C15 : point 32
  
• Directive 95/46 -C16 : point 7
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -274/99 : point 27
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -465/00 : points 26, 27, 35, 38, 62
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -101/01 : point 50
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -101/01 : points 3, 41, 48, 59
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -317/04 : point 48
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -73/07 : points 38, 48
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -518/07 : points 35, 37, 38
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -553/07 : point 26
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -28/08 : point 25
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -92/09 : point 34
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -324/09 : point 26
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -468/10 : points 62, 64
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -131/12 : points 3, 26 - 28, 62
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -293/12 : points 3, 33, 34, 39, 56, 59
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -342/12 : point 62
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -473/12 : points 24, 26, 39
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 19/04/2013

Date of the Opinion

• 10/07/2014

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

11/12/2014

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 46 from 09.02.2015, p.6

Application: OJ C 207 from 20.07.2013, p.11

Name of the parties

Ryneš

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Costes, Lionel: Caméras filmant la voie publique : précisions de la CJUE sur le champ d'application de la directive « données personnelles », Droit de l'immatériel : informatique, médias, communication 2014 nº 111 p.30-31 (FR)
2. Skubic, Zoran: Videonadzor javne poti v zasebne namene po pravu EU načeloma dopusten, Pravna praksa 2014 nº 49-50 p.29-30 (SL)
3. Bretthauer, Sebastian: EuGH: Videoaufzeichnung öffentlichen Straßenraums mit privater Überwachungskamera, Computer und Recht 2015 p.101-103 (DE)
4. Klar, Manuel: Private Videoüberwachung unter Miterfassung des öffentlichen Raums, Neue juristische Wochenschrift 2015 p.464-465 (DE)
5. Reich, Norbert: Das Datenschutz-Orakel aus Luxemburg hat gesprochen … aber nur teilweise, Verbraucher und Recht 2015 p.41-42 (DE)
6. Rescigno, Pietro: Corte di giustizia e videosorveglianza multilivello, Giurisprudenza italiana 2015 p.29-38 (IT)
7. Hijmans , Hielke: On Private Persons Monitoring the Public Space, European Data Protection Law Review 2015 Vol. 1 p.149-152 (EN)
8. Maidowski, Ludwig: Datenerhebung Privater im öffentlichen Raum, Informationfreiheit und Informationsrecht - Jahrbuch 2015 (Ed. Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH - Berlin) 2015 p.289-302 (DE)
9. Perray, Romain ; Uzan-Naulin, Julie: L'arrêt Ryneš : le printemps de Prague de la vidéoprotection à la française, Droit de l'immatériel : informatique, médias, communication 2015 Décembre nº 121 p.21-23 (FR)
10. Gazin, Fabienne: Protection des données à caractère personnel, Europe 2015 Février Comm. nº 2 p.12 (FR)
11. Soós, Andrea Klára: A magánszemélyek által végzett, élet- és vagyonvédelmi célú kamerás megfigyelés adatvédelmi kérdései: a jogszerű adatkezelés feltételei, Infokommunikáció és jog 2015 nº 62-63 p.107-111 (HU)
12. Klann, Thomas: Art. 3 Abs. 2 Richtl. 95/46/EG (Europäische Datenschutzvorgaben bei Aufzeichnung und Speicherung personenbezogener Daten), Deutsches Autorecht 2015 nº 2 p.78 (DE)
13. Kühn, Zdeněk: The Ryneš case and liability for invasion of privacy in the 21st century, CROATIAN YEARBOOK OF EUROPEAN LAW & POLICY 2018 Vol. 14 p.241-253 (EN)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Nejvyšší správní soud (Cour administrative suprême) - Czech Republic

Subject-matter

• Approximation of laws
  
• Fundamental rights
  
• Data protection
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Zákon č. 101/2000 Sb., o ochraně osobních údajů a o změně některých zákonů, o ochraně osobních údajů a o změně některých zákonů, § 3 odst. 3

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

quatrième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Safjan

Advocate General

Jääskinen

Language(s) of the Case

• Czech
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• French