EFTA Court of Justice negotiates validity of a gambling monopoly

Attorney Martin Arendts, ARENDTS of LAWYERS (openPR) - the EFTA Court of Justice negotiates on 31 January 2007 and if necessary on the day the validity of a national monopoly with bets and gambling following on it after European right. Whereupon the law office ARENDTS of LAWYERS specialized in gambling and right refers to. The decision in this collecting main thing (legal matter E-3/06) might have substantial meaning in opinion of attorney Martin Arendts not only for the EFTA-STATEs, but also for the European union, since in principle the authorization of a national monopoly stands on the test stand. Also go it around the question whether the offer may be connected by gambling compellingly with non-profit purposes.

Output procedure is the complaint of the British bookmaker Ladbrokes Ltd. against two Norwegian Ministries. The regional court Oslo (Oslo Tingrett) put thereupon with resolution from 30 January 2006 five questions for the authorization of a monopoly and to the service liberty with gambling the EFTA court yard forwards:

1. Does kind forbid 31 and/or 36 EWR a national legislation, which prescribes that certain forms may be offered by gambling only by the state belonging an enterprise, its profits for cultural and sporty goals uses

2. Does kind forbid 31 and/or 36 EWR a national legislation, which prescribes that permission for the offer is granted by horse running bets only nonprofit organizations or enterprises, which support the horse breeding

3. Does kind forbid 31 and/or 36 EWR a national legislation, which prescribes that permission for the offer of certain forms is granted by gambling only nonprofit organizations or combinations with a humanitarian or socially useful purpose

4. Is it justified after EWR right that a national legislation stresses that profits from gambling for humanitarian and socially useful purposes (including sport and culture) are used and no source of private profit to be to be supposed

5. Does kind exclude 36 EWR a national legal regulation, which forbids the offer and the marketing of gambling, which do not permit in Norway, but are certified after its national right in another EWR state

The substantial meaning, which is attached to the exit of the procedure, shows up already in the fact that not only the European commission and the EFTA supervising authority, but also numerous European Union member states with the Court of Justice submitted statements. Thus to the raised legal questions the governments of Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia as well as the Netherlands took schriftsätzlich position.

A decision of the EFTA Court of Justice might be issued relatively soon after the verbal negotiation.

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