Request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven administrativen sad (Bulgaria) lodged on 17 February 2022 — NG v Direktor na Glavna direktsia ‘Natsionalna politsia’ pri MVR — Sofia

(Case C-118/22)

(2022/C 191/23)

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Varhoven administrativen sad

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant on a point of law: NG

Respondent in the appeal on a point of law: Direktor na Glavna direktsia ‘Natsionalna politsia’ pri MVR — Sofia

Question referred

Does the interpretation of Article 5 in conjunction with Article 13(2)(b) and (3) of Directive (EU) 2016/680 (1) 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 by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA permit national legislative measures which lead to a virtually unrestricted right of competent authorities to process personal data for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and/or to the elimination of the data subject’s right to have the processing of his or her data restricted or to have them erased or destroyed?

(1)  OJ 2016 L 119, p. 89.