Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/03/2010

Subject: The Court ruling on the freedom to provide services affirmed that the EU law does not preclude legislation of a Member State under which exclusive rights to organise and promote games of chance are conferred on a single operator, and which prohibits any other operator, including an operator established in another Member State, from offering via the internet services within the scope of that regime in the territory of the first Member State. The principle of equal treatment and the obligation of transparency are applicable to procedures for the grant of a licence to a single operator or for the renewal thereof in the field of games of chance, in so far as the operator in question is not a public operator whose management is subject to direct State supervision or a private operator whose activities are subject to strict control by the public authorities.

Parties: Sporting Exchange Ltd

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 15 Freedom to provide services - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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