Nowak v. Data Protection Commissioner, 20 December 2017

• Judgment Date: 20 December 2017
• Issuer: Court of Justice of the European Union
• Date: 20 December 2017
• Year: 2017

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Second Chamber)

20 December 2017 *

(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of individuals with regard to the

processing of personal data — Directive 95/46/EC — Article 2(a) — Concept of

‘personal data’ — Written answers submitted by a candidate in a professional

examination — Examiner’s comments with respect to those answers —

Article 12(a) and (b) — Extent of the data subject’s rights to access and

rectification)

In Case C-434/16,

REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Supreme

Court (Ireland), made by decision of 29 July 2016, received at the Court on

4 August 2016, in the proceedings

Peter Nowak

v

Data Protection Commissioner,

THE COURT (Second Chamber),

composed of M. Ilešič (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, A. Rosas,

C. Toader, A. Prechal, and E. Jarašiūnas, Judges,

Advocate General: J. Kokott,

Registrar: M. Aleksejev, Administrator,

having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 22 June 2017,

after considering the observations submitted on behalf of:

– Mr Nowak, by G. Rudden, Solicitor, and N. Travers, Senior Counsel,

* Language of the case: English.

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