b) purpose limitation

2 pending referrals

Referral C-846/25 (Ligue des droits humains, 17 Dec 2025)

Referral C-798/24 (Jautiva, 19 Nov 2024)

1 preliminary ruling

Judgment of 20 Oct 2022, C-77/21 (Digi)

Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), must be interpreted as meaning that the principle of ‘purpose limitation’, laid down in that provision, does not preclude the recording and storage by the controller, in a database created for the purposes of carrying out tests and correcting errors, of personal data previously collected and stored in another database, where such further processing is compatible with the specific purposes for which the personal data were initially collected, which must be determined in the light of the criteria in Article 6(4) of that regulation.  

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