Judgment_paragraph 17 · X v European Commission (C-404/92 P)

17The Court of Justice has held that the right to respect for private life, embodied in Article 8 of the EHRC and deriving from the common constitutional traditions of the Member States, is one of the fundamental rights protected by the legal order of the Community (see the judgment in Case C-62/90 Cotmnission v Germany [1992] ECR I-2575, paragraph 23). It includes in particular a person's right to keep his state of health secret.