Summary: In the case of Commission v Bavarian Lager the Court of Justice of the European Union defines the scope of the protection of personal data in the context of access to documents of the Union institutions.
As Bavarian Lager has not provided any express and legitimate justification or any convincing argument in order to demonstrate the necessity for those personal data to be transferred, the Commission has not been able to weigh up the various interests of the parties concerned. Nor was it able to verify whether there was any reason to assume that the data subjects' legitimate interests might be prejudiced, as required by the Data Protection Regulation.
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