EU Court of Justice · 7 May 2009

Rijkeboer (access to past disclosures)

In plain English

The right of access covers who received your data in the past, not just who receives it now. Keeping that record for only one year was too short unless longer storage would be an excessive burden.

  • College van burgemeester en wethouders van Rotterdam v M. E. E. Rijkeboer
  • Case C-553/07
  • ECLI:EU:C:2009:293

What the court ruled

Article 12(a) of Directive 95/46/EC … requires Member States to ensure a right of access to information on the recipients or categories of recipient of personal data and on the content of the data disclosed not only in respect of the present but also in respect of the past.

Judgment of 7 May 2009, Rijkeboer, C-553/07, EU:C:2009:293, operative partEUR-Lex

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