Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 November 2020

Orange Romania SA v Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul Bucureşti

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 95/46/EC – Article 2(h) and Article 7(a) – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(11) and Article 6(1)(a) – Processing of personal data and protection of private life 20220737 – Collection and storage of the copies of identity documents by a provider of mobile telecommunications services – Concept of the data subject’s ‘consent’ – Freely given, specific and informed indication of wishes – Declaration of consent by means of a tick box – Signing of the contract by the data subject – Burden of proof

Case C-61/19


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex
Judgment (OJ)
18/12/2020 Orange Romania
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2020:901		 11/11/2020 Orange Romania
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2020:158		 04/03/2020 Orange Romania
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
26/04/2019 Orange Romania
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
Request for a preliminary ruling
29/01/2019 Orange Romania
Approximation of laws
  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection
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


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 29/01/2019

Date of the Opinion

  • 04/03/2020

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

11/11/2020


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Information not available

Name of the parties

Orange Romania

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Sellars, Clare: A "crystal-clear" opportunity for the ECJ to clarify the concept of "consent" under the GDPR?, Computer and Telecommunications Law Review 2020 p. 136-138 (EN)
  2. Kaiser, Elena: The concept of "freely given, specific and informed" consent under the scrutiny of the European Court of Justice : Case C-61/19 Orange România SA c. Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP), Court of Justice of the European Union, European Data Protection Law Review 2020 Vol. 6 nº 4 p. 607-610 (EN)
  3. Simon, Denys: Droits fondamentaux - Protection des données, Europe 2021, nº 1 Janvier, comm. 1 (FR)
  4. Savirimuthu, Joseph: Lawfulness of Pre-Formulated Declarations of Consent Case Note on Orange Romania (C-61/19), Journal of European Consumer and Market Law 2021 n° 4 p. 169-172 (EN)
  5. Brunessen, Bertrand: Perfectibilité de la protection des données personnelles, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2021, n° 1, p. 143-144 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunalul Bucureşti - Romania

Subject-matter

  • Approximation of laws
  • Data protection

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

deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

von Danwitz

Advocate General

Szpunar

Language(s) of the Case

  • Romanian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English