Court of Justice judgment · Case C-362/14
Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner
- Case
- C-362/14
- Court
- Court of Justice
- Date of judgment
- 6 October 2015
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2015:650
- Instrument
- Directive 95/46/EC (pre-GDPR; reasoning still applied under the GDPR)
- Provisions
- Article 45, Article 58, Article 77
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)
Declared the Safe Harbour adequacy decision invalid; an adequacy decision does not stop data protection authorities examining complaints about transfers.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
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