Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw held that the President of the Personal Data Protection Office must promptly request completion

The three-month time limit under the GDPR is primarily intended to ensure that a complaint is handled, rather than to permit months of silence before the authority takes its first procedural step. The full text of the judgment in the Judykatura database shows a case in which the court regarded five months of inaction as a manifest infringement of the law. The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw held that the President of the Personal Data Protection Office could not justify the delay by claiming that the complaint required completion of formal defects.


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