Judgment_paragraph 124 · La Quadrature du Net and Others v Premier ministre and Ministère de la Culture (C-470/21)

124In that regard, it is in order to ensure, in practice, full observance of the conditions which the Member States are required to establish in order to ensure that the access is limited to what is strictly necessary that the Court has held that it is ‘essential’ that access by competent national authorities to traffic and location data be subject to a prior review carried out either by a court or by an independent administrative body (see, to that effect, judgments of 21 December 2016, Tele2 Sverige and Watson and Others, C‑203/15 and C‑698/15, EU:C:2016:970, paragraph 120; of 6 October 2020, La Quadrature du Net and Others, C‑511/18, C‑512/18 and C‑520/18, EU:C:2020:791, paragraph 189; of 2 March 2021, Prokuratuur (Conditions of access to data relating to electronic communications), C‑746/18, EU:C:2021:152, paragraph 51; and of 5 April 2022, Commissioner of An Garda Síochána and Others, C‑140/20, EU:C:2022:258, paragraph 106).