European Union attorney general, Pedro Cruz Villalón, has presented his recommendation to the European Union Court of Justice, and he concludes that the directive is incompatible with fundamental rights of which the EU collaboration is based upon. The court's judges are to decide upon the legality of the directive early spring next year.
What started as a mass action lawsuit by Austrian citizens in 2012 has propagated to the EU Court of Justice where it is currently being investigated. A press release from the EU Court of Justice states that the collecting of information for intelligence purposes is not what the attorney general finds contesting the laws, but rather the directive in its entirety - particularly the point that allows for a minimum of 2 years storage of collected data.
The court's judges may still rule in disregard of the recommendation from attorney general Villalón, but EU Court of Justice press contact, Gitte Stadtler, claims that the court takes the general attorneys recommendations into account more often than they disregard it.
Source: Aftenposten
