On Tuesday 16 January, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down a judgment in which it ruled that a parliamentary committee of inquiry must, in principle, comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Case C-33/22).
This judgment is the conclusion of a case involving a witness heard by a committee of inquiry set up by the Austrian Parliament to investigate the existence of possible political influence on the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and...