Proportionality and data protection in the case law of the European Court of Justice

International Data Privacy Law

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 239-248

  Tranberg, Charlotte Bagger ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 85070473433     PISSN: 20443994     EISSN: 20444001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/idpl/ipr015     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data [1995] OJ L281/31.
2. Peck v UK App no 44647/98 (ECtHR, 28 January 2003)
3. Copland v UK App no 62617/00 (ECtHR, 3April 2007)
4. and Marper v UK App. No 30562/04 and 30566/04 (ECtHR, 4 December 2008).
5. Consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) [2010] OJ C83/1.
6. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [2010] OJ C83/ 389
7. Consolidated version of the Treaty Establishing the European Community [2006] OJ C321E/37.
8. TEU [1997] OJ C340/.
9. Case 11/70 Internationale Handelsgesellschaft mbH / Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel [1970] ECR 1125.
10. The classical decision in the area is the so-called Kreutzberg-Urteil. PrOVG [1882] E 9, 353 or DVBl [1985] 219
11. VBlBW [1993] 271.
12. Case C-331/88 The Queen v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, ex parte FEDESA and others [1990] ECR I-4023, para. 13.
13. An almost identical formulation of the principle is found in Joined Cases C-133, C-300 and C-362/93 Crispoltoni and others / Fattoria Autonoma Tabacchi and others [1994] ECR 1-4863, para. 40.
14. See inter alia Case C-40/72 Schröder KG v Germany [1973] ECR 125, para. 14
15. Case C-265/87 Schräder v Hauptzollamt Gronau [1989] ECR 2237, para. 23 and Case C-331/88 FEDESA, para. 14.
16. Consolidated versions of the TEU and the TFEU [2010] OJ C83/1.
17. Joined Cases C-465/00, C-138/01, and C-139/01 Österreichischer Rundfunk [2003] ECR I-6041.
18. Case C-101/01 Bodil Lindqvist [2003] ECR I-12971.
19. The general nature of the General Directive is also mentioned by the ECJ in Case C-275/06 Promusicae [2008] ECR I-271, para. 67
20. Case C-101/01, Lindqvist, para. 84. The margin allowed member states in their implementation of the General Directive is also mentioned in case C-275/06, Promusicae, para. 67.
21. Case C-524/06 Huber [2008] ECR I-9705.
22. Consolidated versions of the TEU and the TFEU [2010] OJ C83/47, Articles 18 and 20.
23. Reference to eighth and tenth recital in the Preamble of 95/46/EC in C-524/06, Huber, para. 50.
24. Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the EU and their family members to move and reside freely within the territories of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/ EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/ 364/EEC, 90/365/EEC, and 93/96/EEC [2004] OJ L229/35.
25. Case C-524/06 Huber [2008] ECR I-9705, Opinion of AG Maduro.
26. Case C-73/07 Satakunnan Markkinapörssi and Satamedia [2008] ECR I-9831.
27. See Joined cases C-92/09 and C-93/09, Volker and Marcus Scheke, which will be discussed in Section 6.
28. Ibid., para. 51, and also case C-106/89 Marleasing v Comercial Internacional de Alimentación [1990] ECR I-4135, para. 8.
29. Case C-73/07 Satakunnan Markkinapörssi and Satamedia [2008] ECR I-9831, Opinion of AG Kokott, para. 58.
30. Joined cases C-92 and C-93/09 Volker and Marcus Schecke Eifert (ECJ, 9 November 2010).
31. Council Regulation No. 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1437/2007 of 26 November 2007, [2007] OJ L322/1
32. the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), [2008] OJ L76/28.
33. The ECJ also refers to its decision in Case C-58/08 Vodafone and others [2008] ECR I-188, para. 51 and other earlier case law.