Nation First EU Member to Nullify Data Retention Law After ECJ Ruling

The Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) June 27 nullified the country’s data retention law, becoming the first EU member state to move to implement the ruling by the EU’s highest court that the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) is invalid (case name unavailable).

The Austrian court ruling reflects the reality of the need to eliminate laws in EU member states that transposed the Data Retention Directive, which was recently nullified by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Lukas Feiler, of Diwok Hermann Petsche Rechtsanwälte LLP & Co KG in Vienna, which is affiliated with Baker & McKenzie LLP, told Bloomberg ...