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Document 62025CN0317
Case C-317/25, Groupe Canal +: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 6 May 2025 – Groupe Canal + SAS v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
Case C-317/25, Groupe Canal +: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 6 May 2025 – Groupe Canal + SAS v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
Case C-317/25, Groupe Canal +: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 6 May 2025 – Groupe Canal + SAS v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
OJ C, C/2026/1325, 16.3.2026, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1325/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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Official Journal |
EN C series |
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C/2026/1325 |
16.3.2026 |
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 6 May 2025 – Groupe Canal + SAS v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
(Case C-317/25, Groupe Canal +)
(C/2026/1325)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Groupe Canal + SAS
Defendant: Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
Other parties to the proceedings: Prime Minister, Syndicat professionnel Data et Marketing France (DMA France), Syndicat Collectif pour les acteurs du marketing digital (CPA), Association Alliance Digitale, Association Le Groupement des éditeurs de contenus et services en ligne (GESTE)
Questions referred
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Must [point 11 of Article 4] of the GDPR, (1) read in conjunction with Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR and Article 13 of Directive [2002/58/EC] of 12 July 2002, (2) be interpreted as meaning that the data subject’s consent given to a primary collector for his or her data to be used by a category of recipients, such as, in the present case, the ‘partners’ of ISPs (internet service providers), may be regarded as free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent enabling any person belonging to that category to engage in electronic direct marketing without having to seek consent again, or does the combination of those provisions imply, in such a case, that any recipient of the personal data collected whose identity was not known to the data subject at the time consent was given to the primary collector must obtain that person’s consent before being able to conduct direct marketing on him or her in its capacity as the new controller? |
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If it is to be assumed that the consent given by the data subject to a primary collector to his or her data being used by a category of recipients for electronic direct marketing may be regarded as informed consent within the meaning of the provisions cited above, is the degree of precision of the concept of ‘category’ of recipients significant or may it, as in the present case, merely refer to any ‘partner’ of the primary collector? |
(1) 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) (OJ 2016 L 119, p. 1).
(2) Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (OJ 2002 L 201, p. 37).
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1325/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)