Data protection in civil litigation: grounds of international jurisdiction

Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (OJ L 119 of 4 May 2016, hereinafter the ‘GDPR’) lays down rules on international jurisdiction for civil liability disputes whose relationship with the grounds of jurisdiction provided in Regulation 1215/2012 (‘Brussels I Recast’) may be controversial in cases where the case falls within the scope of both texts.