Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 07/16/2015

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights precludes a national provision which allows, in an unlimited and unconditional manner, a banking institution to invoke banking secrecy in order to refuse to provide information concerning the name and address of an account holder

Parties: Coty Germany

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of information - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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