BelgiumCode de Droit Économique Article XVII.37, 10 degrees/1, Collective Redress for GDPR Claims
Code de droit economique Art. XVII.37, 10 degrees/1, as inserted by the Loi du 30 juillet 2018 portant dispositions diverses en matiere d'Economie (numac 2018031589), Art. 43
In force since .
An enforcement supervision rule binding private bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- Yes
- Obligation class
- Data subject rights
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) toward Belgian data subjects, since a breach can found a collective redress action by a qualified consumer entity under Code de droit economique Book XVII, Title 2, in addition to any individual Article 82 claim.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Belgian courts, not a regulator: a Code de droit economique Book XVII collective redress action is a civil judicial procedure, not an administrative one, and the GBA/APD is not a party to or decision-maker in it. Book XVII, Title 2, Chapter 1, Section 1, which holds Article XVII.35, is headed "Competence des cours et tribunaux de Bruxelles" (jurisdiction of the Brussels courts).
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does point 10°/1 of Article XVII.37, which names only Regulation (EU) 2016/679, make a breach of Belgium's national data protection law a ground for a collective redress action?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article XVII.37, point 10°/1 adds the GDPR to the instruments whose breach can found a collective redress action. It imposes no log or record duty.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 82 arms an individual data subject to claim damages directly.
Belgium separately added the GDPR to the Code of Economic Law's collective redress action, Book XVII, Title 2: Article 43(a) of the Act of on various economic provisions inserted point 10 degrees/1 naming Regulation (EU) 2016/679 into Article XVII.37's list of instruments whose breach can found a collective redress action, and Article 104 of the same act gives that insertion retroactive effect from .
When LexLint raises it
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