Referral C-741/25 (Ranerski, 20 Nov 2025)

Must Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications), 1 as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009, 2 in conjunction with Articles 7, 8, 11 and 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, be interpreted as precluding national legislation which imposes on operators of publicly available electronic communications services a preventive, non-individualised, collective obligation, not limited in time or geographical scope, to retain traffic and location data of end users of those services, where that obligation concerns data necessary to determine the date and time of the connection, the type of connection and the location of the telecommunications terminal equipment, and where the telecommunications undertaking is required, at its own expense, to retain and store the abovementioned data generated in the public telecommunications network or processed by it in the territory of the Republic of Poland for a period of 12 months from the date of the connection or unsuccessful connection attempt, and, upon expiry of that period, to destroy such data, except for data that has been secured in accordance with separate provisions?