EU Court Rules: Shareholders’ Personal Data Cannot Be Disclosed Unconditionally; Cyprus’s Company Registration System Faces a Need to Strike a New Balance

On September 3, the European Court of Justice ruled in Case C-798/24, Jautiva, that making the personal data of all shareholders unconditionally accessible to anyone constitutes a serious interference with Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. EU law does not require disclosure of information about all shareholders in public limited companies, particularly minority shareholders.