The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday 16 February that a decision authorising a phone tap does not have to contain individualised reasons (case C-349/21).
According to the Court, the obligation to state reasons is not violated when the decision is based on a detailed and in-depth request from the competent criminal authority and the reasons for the authorisation can be easily and unambiguously deduced from a cross-reference of the request and the authorisation.
In 2017, the...