Appeal Seeking Annulment Of The Data Privacy Framework Dismissed

In a ruling dated September 3, 2025 ¹ , the General Court of the European Union ("GCEU") dismissed the appeal brought by the French member of parliament Philippe Latombe, seeking annulment of the "Data Privacy Framework" established by the European Commission's adequacy decision of July 10, 2023, allowing the transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States.

As a reminder, previous adequacy decisions allowing data transfers between the European Union and the United States had been annulled by the Court of Justice in the "Schrems I" and "Schrems II" judgments.

In support of his application, Mr. Latombe considered, in particular, that :

• the "Data Protection Review Court" (Court responsible for data protection oversight in the United States ("DPRC")) was neither impartial nor independent ;