Brussels, 08/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 8 April, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled (case C-288/12) that by terminating the mandate of its data protection commissioner early, on 1 January 2012, Hungary had violated the directive on the protection of personal data (95/46/EC). This directive obliges the member states to appoint authorities responsible for the protection of these data to carry out their mandate in full independence. The European judges took the view that the early...