Article 15 - Right of access by the data subject
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Order of 27 May 2024, C-312/23 (Addiko Bank)
The first sentence of Article 15(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) must be interpreted as meaning that the right of the data subject to obtain a copy of the personal data concerning him or her that are undergoing processing means that that person must be given a faithful and intelligible reproduction of all those data. That right entails the right to obtain a full copy of the documents that contain, inter alia, those data, if the provision of such a copy is essential in order to enable the data subject to verify how accurate and exhaustive those data are, as well as to ensure they are intelligible.
Article 15(1) and (3) of Regulation 2016/679 must be interpreted as meaning that the controller is under an obligation to provide the data subject who has made the request with a copy of his or her personal data undergoing processing, even where the reason for that request is not related to those referred to in the first sentence of recital 63 of that regulation.
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