Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 9 July 2020

VQ v Land Hessen

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden

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

Case C-272/19


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Link
Request for a preliminary ruling
01/04/2019 Land Hessen
Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Data protection
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
17/05/2019 Land Hessen
Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Data protection
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2020:535		 09/07/2020 Land Hessen
Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Data protection
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (OJ)
14/08/2020 Land Hessen
Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Data protection
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

not yet published (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

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Systematic classification scheme

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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.01 Protection of personal data
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.01 Protection of personal data
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.01 Protection of personal data


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 01/04/2019

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

09/07/2020


References

Publication in the Official Journal

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Name of the parties

Land Hessen

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Rigaux, Anne: Renvoi préjudiciel - Recevabilité, Europe 2020, n° 10 Octobre, Comm. 293 (FR)
  2. Leloup, Mathieu: Het arrest Land Hessen: opnieuw over het onafhankelijkheidsbegrip in de Europese rechtsorde, zaak C-272/19, Land Hessen, S.E.W. : Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht 2021 p. 71-75 (NL)
  3. Beems, Rosa Belle: VQ v Land Hessen : from "Court or Tribunal" in the meaning of Article 267 TFEU to the GDPR’s concept of a "controller" : case C-272/19, European Data Protection Law Review 2021 Vol. 7 nº 2 p. 296-303 (EN)
  4. Brunessen, Bertrand: Le champ d'application du droit européen du numérique, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2021, n° 1, p. 181-187 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden - Germany

Subject-matter

  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
  • Data protection
  • Fundamental rights
  • - Charter of Fundamental Rights

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Rossi

Advocate General

Szpunar

Language(s) of the Case

  • German

Language(s) of the Opinion

    Information not available