On Thursday 9 November, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down a judgment in which it ruled that vehicle manufacturers are obliged to make vehicle identification numbers available to independent operators and that this does not contravene the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Case C-319/22).
The matter was referred to the Court by a German court, which in turn had been asked to rule by a trade association for the independent motor parts trade. The latter...