BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT AG V COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 30.5.2006 (“BANK AUSTRIA”)

Personal data: The data of a legal person is not protected under EU data protection law. (¶ 95)

Regulation No 45/2001 seeks to protect individuals with regard to the processing of personal data. The applicant, which is a legal person, does not belong to the circle of persons which the regulation is intended to protect. It cannot therefore invoke an alleged breach of the rules which that regulation prescribes (see, by analogy, Case 85/82 Schloh v Council [1983] ECR 2105, paragraph 14; Case C‑69/89 Nakajima v Council [1991] ECR I-2069, paragraphs 49 and 50; and the Opinion of Advocate General Van Gerven in Case C-137/92 P Commission v BASF and Others [1994] ECR I-2555, points 55 and 56).