EU Court of Justice · 9 March 2017
Manni (company registers)
In plain English
A businessman has no general right to have his name removed from the public companies register. Member States may let people ask, case by case and in exceptional situations, for access to be limited long after the company was dissolved.
What the court ruled
it is for the Member States to determine whether the natural persons … may apply to the authority responsible for keeping … companies register to determine, on the basis of a case-by-case assessment, if it is exceptionally justified … to limit, on the expiry of a sufficiently long period after the dissolution of the company concerned, access to personal data relating to them …
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