Protection in Germany of the fundamental rights of the European Union (GrCH). Case note of the BVerfG (German Federal Constitutional Court) of 06.11.2019 - 1 BvR 16/13 concerning the interpretation of the fundamental rights within the Basic law with regard to non-fully harmonized EU law.

Orientation sentences for the remark 1. In the case of non-fully harmonised EU law, the fundamental rights of the Basic Law constitute the primary standard of assessment. Within the diversity of fundamental rights provided for by European law, the presumption is that the fundamental rights of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (GrCh) are co-guaranteed by those of the GG(German Constitution). That presumption can only be rebutted if there is concrete and sufficient evidence to support it. 2. Threats from the dissemination of personal reports and information as part of public communication affect the scope of protection of the expressions of general personality law, not that of the right to informational self-determination. 3. The general right of personality does not give way to filtering and restricting publicly available information about one’s own person according to his own ideas. The unlimited public confrontation with previous positions, statements and actions, on the other hand, is not appropriate. 4. On the contrary, it is necessary to strike a balance with the interests of the content provider, with specific emphasis on the temporal aspect, availability and context of the information in relation to the communication conditions of the Internet.