Court of Justice judgment · Case C-645/19

Facebook Ireland Ltd and Others v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case: C-645/19
Court: Court of Justice
Date of judgment: 15 June 2021
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2021:483
Instrument: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)
Provisions: Article 55(1), Article 56, Article 58(5), Article 60, Article 61, Article 66

Holding (summary, not the official text)

A non-lead supervisory authority may go to court over cross-border processing only in the situations where the GDPR gives it competence and while respecting the cooperation and consistency procedures; the defendant need not have an establishment in that State.

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