Judgment_paragraph 117 · Criminal proceedings against V.S (C-205/21)

117In the second place, as follows from the very terms in which it is set out in Article 10 of Directive 2016/680, the requirement that the processing of such data be allowed ‘only where strictly necessary’ [(‘uniquement en cas de nécessité absolue’ in the French-language version)] must be interpreted as establishing strengthened conditions for lawful processing of sensitive data, compared with those which follow from Article 4(1)(b) and (c) and Article 8(1) of that directive and refer only to the ‘necessity’ of data processing that falls generally, within the directive’s scope.