Brussels, 10/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment of 10 February, the Court of Justice of the European Communities ruled that the data retention directive was correctly adopted on the basis of the EC Treaty. This invalidates the case put forward by Ireland that the directive seeks police and judicial cooperation ends and could not, therefore, be adopted on the basis of the EC Treaty.
The Court of Justice states that directive 2006/24/EC arrangements refer only to measures to be put in...