The Court has accepted the referral to the Grand Chamber of the cases Burando Holding B.V. and Port Invest B.V. v. the Netherlands, Janssen de Jong Groep B.V. and Others v. the Netherlands and Ships Waste Oil Collector B.V. v. the Netherlands (nos. 3124/16 and 3205/16, 2800/16, 2799/16).

The three cases concern the transmission of data, lawfully obtained in a criminal investigation, to another law-enforcement authority, the Competition Authority, that used those data in an investigation into the applicant companies’ involvement in price-fixing.

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