Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 22 June 2021

Proceedings brought by B

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Satversmes tiesa

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 5, 6 and 10 – National legislation providing for public access to personal data relating to penalty points imposed for road traffic offences – Lawfulness – Concept of ‘personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences’ – Disclosure for the purpose of improving road safety – Right of public access to official documents – Freedom of information – Reconciliation with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data – Re-use of data – Article 267 TFEU – Temporal effect of a preliminary ruling – Ability of a constitutional court of a Member State to maintain the legal effects of national legislation incompatible with EU law – Principles of primacy of EU law and of legal certainty

Case C-439/19


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
23/07/2021 Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2021:504		 22/06/2021 Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Abstract
ECLI:EU:C:2021:504		 22/06/2021 Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
02/08/2019 Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Request for a preliminary ruling
11/06/2019 Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2020:1054		 17/12/2020 Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties
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
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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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1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.04 Fundamental rights
    1.04.03 The fundamental rights
      1.04.03.07 Respect for private and family life
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1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.04 Fundamental rights
    1.04.03 The fundamental rights
      1.04.03.08 Protection of personal data
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.03 Effects of a preliminary ruling
      3.04.03.01 Rulings providing an interpretation


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 11/06/2019

Date of the Opinion

  • 17/12/2020

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

22/06/2021


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Information not available

Name of the parties

Latvijas Republikas Saeima (Points de pénalité)

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Simon, Denys: Droits fondamentaux - Protection des données personnelles, Europe 2021, n° 8-9 août, comm. 273 (FR)
  2. Sloot, Bart van der: Is this the end for the re-use of PSI? : Latvijas Republikas Saeima (HvJ EU, C-439/19), European Data Protection Law Review 2021 Vol. 7 nº 3 p. 473-476 (EN)
  3. Wrigley, Sam: B v Latvijas Republikas Saeima : GDPR limits publishing of information about drivers who receive penalty points : case C-439/19 B v Latvijas Republikas Saeima, European Data Protection Law Review 2021 Vol. 7 nº 4 p. 609-613 (EN)
  4. Castets-Renard, Céline: XXII. Données personnelles - Cour de justice, gde ch., 22 juin 2021, B c/ Latvijas Republikas Saeima, aff. C-439/19, ECLI:EU:C:2021:504, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2021. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2022, p. 1014-1018 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Satversmes tiesa - Latvia

Subject-matter

  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
  • Principles, objectives and tasks of the Treaties

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Ilešič

Advocate General

Szpunar

Language(s) of the Case

  • Latvian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English