Court of Justice judgment · Case C-210/16

Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein v Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case: C-210/16
Court: Court of Justice
Date of judgment: 5 June 2018
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2018:388
Instrument: Directive 95/46/EC (pre-GDPR; reasoning still applied under the GDPR)
Provisions: Article 4(7), Article 26, Article 55, Article 56

Listed under "Related (earlier law or other instruments)": this judgment concerns earlier law or another instrument, not the GDPR alone.

Holding (summary, not the official text)

The administrator of a fan page on a social network is a controller jointly with the network; a supervisory authority can act against the network's local establishment in its own Member State.

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

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