欧洲法院宣布数据留存指令无效

PRESS RELEASE No 54/14

Luxembourg, 8 April 2014

Judgment in Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12

Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger and Others

The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid

欧洲法院宣布数据留存指令无效

It entails a wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data, without that interference being limited to what is strictly necessary

（指令）需对尊重私人生活和保护个人信息的基本权利进行广泛而深入的干涉，而这种干涉并未限制在绝对必要的情形下。

The main objective of the Data Retention Directive1 is to harmonise Member States’ provisions concerning the retention of certain data which are generated or processed by providers of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks. It therefore seeks to ensure that the data are available for the purpose of the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime, such as, in particular, organised crime and terrorism. Thus, the directive provides that the abovementioned providers must retain traffic and location data as well as related data necessary to identify the subscriber or user. By contrast, it does not permit the retention of the content of the communication or of information consulted.

数据留存指令的主要目的是统一与公共电子通信服务或公共通信网络供应商提供或处理特定数据留存有关的成员国法律规定。其旨在确保数据可用于预防、调

查、侦查和起诉严重犯罪，例如，特别是有组织犯罪和恐怖主义。因此，该指令规定，上述提供者必须留存路径、数据定位以及相关数据，以确保能识别订户或用户。与此相反，其不允许对通信内容或协商信息予以留存。

The High Court (Ireland) and the Verfassungsgerichtshof (Constitutional Court, Austria) are asking the Court of Justice to examine the validity of the directive, in particular in the light of two fundamental rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, namely the fundamental right to respect for private life and the fundamental right to the protection of personal data.

高等法院（爱尔兰）和宪法法院（奥地利）要求欧洲法院审查该指令的有效性，尤其是基于欧盟基本权利宪章的两项基本权利，即尊重私人生活的基本权利、保护个人信息的基本权利。

The High Court must resolve a dispute between the Irish company Digital Rights Ireland and the Irish authorities regarding the legality of national measures concerning the retention of data relating to electronic communications.The Verfassungsgerichtshof has before it several constitutional actions brought by the Kärntner Landesregierung (Government of the Province of Carinthia) and by Mr Seitlinger, Mr Tschohl and 11 128 other applicants. Those actions seek the annulment of the national provision which transposes the directive into Austrian law.

高等法院须解决一家名为“数字化权利爱尔兰”的爱尔兰公司与爱尔兰政府间的关于涉及留存电子通信数据国家机制合法性的纠纷。奥地利的宪法法院将由Kärntner Landesregierung（克恩顿州州政府）和Seitlinger先生、Tschohl先生和11128位其他申请人提起的宪法诉讼提交至欧洲法院。诉请将指令转化为奥地利国内法宣布无效。

By today’s judgment, the Court declares the directive invalid2.