Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 July 2018

Proceedings brought by Tietosuojavaltuutettu

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data — Directive 95/46/EC — Scope of the directive — Article 3 — Data collected and processed by the members of a religious community in the course of their door-to-door preaching — Article 2(c) — Definition of a ‘personal data filing system’ — Article 2(d) — Definition of a ‘controller’ of the processing of personal data — Article 10(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Case C-25/17


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Link
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2018:57
01/02/2018 Jehovan todistajat
Application (OJ)
03/03/2017 Jehovan todistajat
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2018:551
10/07/2018 Jehovan todistajat
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2018:551
10/07/2018 Jehovan todistajat
Judgment (OJ)
24/08/2018 Jehovan todistajat
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
3 Legal proceedings
  3.08 Procedural rules
    3.08.07 Oral procedure
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.04 Fundamental rights
    1.04.03 The fundamental rights
      1.04.03.10 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.01 Protection of personal data
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.01 Protection of personal data
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


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 19/01/2017

Date of the Opinion

  • 01/02/2018

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

10/07/2018


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 319 from 10.09.2018, p.7

Application: OJ C 86 from 20.03.2017, p.19

Name of the parties

Jehovan todistajat

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Ernst, Stefan: Zur Erhebung personenbezogener Daten in Papierform („Jehovan todistajat“), Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht 2018 p.493-494 (DE)
  2. Skubic, Zoran: Oznanjevanje vere od vrat do vrat je lahko nezakonita obdelava osebnih podatkov, Pravna praksa 2018 nº 39-40 p.36-37 (SL)
  3. Petri, Thomas: Datenschutzrecht: Schutz der natürlichen Personen bei Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten im Rahmen der Verkündigungstätigkeit der Zeugen Jehovas - EuGH (Große Kammer), Urteil vom 10.7.2018 - C-25/17 (Jehovan todistajat / Datenschutzkommission) - Anmerkung von Professor Dr. Thomas Petri, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 2018 p.897-903 (DE)
  4. Simon, Denys: La collecte et le traitement de données personnelles par les Témoins de Jehovah dans le cadre des activités de prédication porte à porte sont soumis à la directive relative à la protection des données personnelles., Europe 2018 Octobre Comm. nº 10 p.15-16 (FR)
  5. Gellert, Raphaël: Door-to-Door Preaching by Jehovah's Witnesses Community Falls under Data Protection Law, European Data Protection Law Review 2018 Vol. 4 p.391-395 (EN)
  6. Perray, Romain ; Uzan-Naulin, Julie: Même Jéhovah est soumis au RGPD !, Dalloz IP / IT 2018 nº 12 p.698-701 (FR)
  7. Thüsing, Gregor ; Rombey, Sebastian: Dateigebundene Verarbeitung und Datenverantwortung, Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht 2019 p.6-11 (DE)
  8. D’Ath, Florence ; De Smedt, Stéphanie: Arrêt « Jehovan todistajat » : témoins de Jéhovah et application de la législation sur la protection des données à caractère personnel, Journal de droit européen 2019, nº 256, p. 67-69 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Korkein hallinto-oikeus - Finland

Subject-matter

  • Data protection
  • Approximation of laws

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

von Danwitz

Advocate General

Mengozzi

Language(s) of the Case

  • Finnish

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French