10.15166/2499-8249/343
https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/europeanforum/new-european-fundamental-rights-court-german-constitutional-court-on-right-to-be-forgotten
2499-8249
Friedl, Paul
Paul
Friedl
Humboldt-University Berlin
A New European Fundamental Rights Court: The German Constitutional Court on the Right to Be Forgotten
European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
2020
EU multilevel fundamental rights adjudication
judicial cooperation
Art. 51 of the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union
Bundesverfassungsgericht
right to be forgotten
data protection
2020-03-24
Research Centre for European Law, Unitelma Sapienza - University of Rome
eng
European Forum Insight
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European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 447-460
European Forum Insight of 24 March 2020
I. Introduction. - II. A European calling: the GCC's new configuration of EU multilevel fundamental rights adjudication. - II.1. Previous GCC jurisprudence on EU multilevel fundamental rights adjudication. - II.2. Serving two masters: parallel applicability of Grundgesetz and Charter fundamental rights. - II.3. The GCC's new-found competence to apply the Charter of fundamental rights. - III. New laws of forgetting: novelties for the (European) right to be forgotten. - III.1. RTBF II: ambiguities of data protection's media privilege. - III.2. RTBF I: a new normative grounding for the right to be forgotten. - IV. Concluding remarks.
This Insight concerns two judgments of the German Federal Constitutional Court from 6 November 2019, Right to be Forgotten I and II. The judgments present an overhaul of the Court's own positioning within the system of EU multilevel fundamental rights adjudication and bring substantial novelties to the EU law doctrine on the right to be forgotten. This Insight details the Court's reasoning, which establishes a legal space of European and domestic fundamental rights co-regulation and for the first time asserts its competence to apply the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union directly. Reconstructing how the Court's conceptualization of the right to be forgotten deviates from Court of Justice's jurisprudence both theoretically and practically, the Insight furthermore pinpoints the risks of the revised institutional setup.