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
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
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
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
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
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
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

not yet published (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

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: CJUE, 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 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

Latvijas Republikas Satversme, 96.pants, 100.pants Ceļu satiksmes likums, 14.1 pants, 43.1 panta pirmā daļa

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