24.10.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 408/2

(Case C-184/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Articles 7, 8 and 52(1) - Directive 95/46/EC - Article 7(c) - Article 8(1) - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 - Point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) and the second subparagraph of Article 6(3) - Article 9(1) - Processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject - Objective of public interest - Proportionality - Processing of special categories of personal data - National legislation requiring publication on the internet of data contained in the declarations of private interests of natural persons working in the public service or of heads of associations or establishments receiving public funds - Prevention of conflicts of interest and of corruption in the public sector)

(2022/C 408/02)

Language of the case: Lithuanian

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: OT

Defendant: Vyriausioji tarnybinės etikos komisija

Third party: Fondas ‘Nevyriausybinių organizacijų informacijos ir paramos centras’

Operative part of the judgment

1.Article 7(c) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) and Article 6(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), read in the light of Articles 7, 8 and 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation that provides for the publication online of the declaration of private interests that any head of an establishment receiving public funds is required to lodge, in so far as, in particular, that publication concerns name-specific data relating to his or her spouse, cohabitee or partner, or to persons who are close relatives of the declarant, or are known by him or her, liable to give rise to a conflict of interests, or concerns any transaction concluded during the last 12 calendar months the value of which exceeds EUR 3 000.

2.Article 8(1) of Directive 95/46 and Article 9(1) of Regulation 2016/679 must be interpreted as meaning that the publication, on the website of the public authority responsible for collecting and checking the content of declarations of private interests, of personal data that are liable to disclose indirectly the sexual orientation of a natural person constitutes processing of special categories of personal data, for the purpose of those provisions.

OJ C 255, 3.8.2020.