Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/16/2024

Subject: According to the Court, a committee of inquiry set up by the parliament of a Member State in the exercise of its power of scrutiny over the executive must, in principle, comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Furthermore, where there is only one supervisory authority in that Member State, that authority is, in principle, competent to monitor compliance with the GDPR on the part of the committee of inquiry. By contrast, where the committee of inquiry in fact carries out an activity that, as such, is intended to safeguard national security, it is not subject to the GDPR or, consequently, to monitoring on the part of the supervisory authority

Parties: Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access

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