Is there a right for the personal data included in the companies register to be forgotten? European legislation does not provide for such a right and rightly so, replied Advocate General Yves Bot, when presenting his conclusions to the Court of Justice of the EU on Thursday 8 September.
This case (C-398/15), which was put before the Court of Justice by the Italian Court of Cassation, looks at this issue with regard to two European directives. The first of these concerns the treatment of...