Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case between Facebook and the Belgian Privacy Commission that gives regulators increased powers to fine companies in their own courts. The case involves the one-stop-shop mechanism under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, as the Belgian DPA sought to stop Facebook from tracking citizens. Under the one-stop-shop mechanism, the Irish Data Protection Commission serves as the lead regulator for issues involving Facebook. Following the ECJ ruling, under certain conditions, a national data protection authority may exercise its power "to bring any alleged infringement" of EU data protection law to court anywhere in the European Union, "even though that authority is not the lead supervisory authority with regard to that processing."
Read the Court of Justice of the European Union: PRESS RELEASE No 103/21 re Judgment in Case C-645/19.
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