Court of Justice judgment · Case C-673/17

Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. v Planet49 GmbH

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case: C-673/17
Court: Court of Justice
Date of judgment: 1 October 2019
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2019:801
Instrument: GDPR together with the ePrivacy Directive (Art. 5(3))
Provisions: Article 4(11), Article 6(1)(a), Article 7

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)

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Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

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