International. The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has annulled an article of the Regulation of Shows of the Generalitat that forced to install surveillance cameras at the entrance of leisure venues, for supposing "a clear interference" in the fundamental rights of customers.
In its judgment, the administrative litigation chamber of the TSJC estimates the appeal that the Catalan Federation of Nightlife Venues (FECALON) presented against a dozen articles of the regulation that the Generalitat approved in 2010 to regulate public shows and recreational activities.
The Catalan high court endorses most of the articles challenged by the leisure employers, but has annulled two of them, the one that forced to install video cameras at the doors of the discotheque and a second related to the typification of very serious offenses.
The first of the articles annulled, 69.1, established that premises with capacities greater than 151 people must have a recording system that continuously records the entrances and exits of the same, images that it is mandatory to keep for three months.
For the TSJC, the installation of a system of continuous recording of images of users and customers "supposes a clear interference in their fundamental rights to the image and to privacy, which due to lack of coverage by organic law, must be understood illegitimate and, consequently, null and void in full right (...)".
