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Court case 31 O 714/21 – Court Ruling (Germany, 2022)
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A German court ruled that a shareholder of a company did not have the right to immediate access to certain business records. The court decided that the urgency for access was not justified in this case. This ruling clarifies the limits of access rights under data protection laws.
What happened
The court ruled that the shareholder's request for full access to business records was not urgent and did not meet the criteria for an interim injunction.
Who was affected
The shareholder of two companies in the airline industry was involved in the case.
What the authority found
The court held that there was likely no right to access the requested data under GDPR, dismissing the urgency of the request.
Why this matters
This ruling highlights the importance of understanding the conditions under which access to personal data can be requested. It shows that not all requests will be treated as urgent.
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The data subject is the shareholder of two companies that were part of a German airline (hereinafter “companies”). The controller is the insolvency administrator of these companies. The accounting of the companies was done by an accounting department, respectively by an external service provider. A German Local Court ordered the seizure of the business records, in particular the accounting records. Afterwards, the controller continued to provide the data subject with access to the accounting systems. The parties dispute whether full access was granted in the process. The data subject requests that the controller shall be obliged to set up full data access by means of an interim injunction. The data subject bases the claim, inter alia, on Article 15 GDPR. The controller requests that the application for an interim injunction shall be dismissed. The court ruled that a right to access pursuant to Article 15 GDPR likely did not exist in this case. Subsequently, it did not find the urgency necessary for an interim injunction. The court did not share the data subject's view that data created or received under their management would in any case be personal data concerning them, irrespective of the detailed content. In any case, however, this did not result in any particular urgency in the sense of a ground for injunction. According to the court, there is no legal principle that the assertion of the right to information under data protection law would always be urgent or that the claimant should not be referred to assertion in the main proceedings.
Outcome
Court Ruling
A ruling by a national court on a data-protection matter.
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