46In the second place, the context of that provision also tends to indicate that the right to compensation is not subject to the condition that the damage in question has reached a certain threshold of seriousness. The third sentence of recital 146 of the GDPR states that ‘the concept of damage should be broadly interpreted in the light of the case-law of the Court of Justice in a manner which fully reflects the objectives of this Regulation’. It would be contrary to that broad conception of ‘damage’, favoured by the EU legislature, if that concept were limited solely to damage of a certain degree of seriousness.
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