48In addition, as the Commission maintained, the condition relating to the need for processing must be examined in conjunction with the ‘data minimisation’ principle enshrined in Article 6(1)(c) of Directive 95/46, in accordance with which personal data must be ‘adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or further processed’.
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