NG v Direktor na Glavna direktsia ‘Natsionalna politsia’ pri Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti – Sofia (C-118/22)

Judgment of 30 Jan 2024

law://eu/cjeu/2022/c-118-22/para_45@2026-11-14

45As stated in recital 26 of Directive 2016/680, that provision seeks to ensure that personal data are not, in accordance with the requirements of Article 4(1)(e) of that directive, kept longer than is necessary. It is true that Directive 2016/680 leaves it to the Member States to set appropriate time limits on the storage period and to decide whether those time limits concern the erasure of those data or the periodic review of the need to store them, provided that the observance of those time limits is ensured by adequate procedural measures. However, the ‘appropriate’ nature of those periods requires, in any event, that – in accordance with Article 4(1)(c) and (e) of that directive, read in the light of Article 52(1) of the Charter – those time limits allow, where appropriate, the erasure of the data concerned where their storage is no longer necessary for the purposes which justified the processing.

NG v Direktor na Glavna direktsia ‘Natsionalna politsia’ pri Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti – Sofia (C-118/22)

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