How should we define ‘strict control’?
By Dr Alan Littler and Justin Franssen
Wave upon wave of preliminary references have been sent to the Court of Justice of the European Union by national courts caught at the intersection between national gambling regulation and the principles upon which the internal market is founded.
Initially, the case-law concerned the mailing of lottery tickets in Schindler and the operation of slot machines in Läärä, but with the rise of the internet and the revolution it sparked within the gambling industry, gambling has spread like wildfire through the Court’s workload. Gambelli regulation of gambling, yet it would be unimaginable to argue that gambling is comparable to other activities from which the Court has kept a distance, such as pornography and prostitution.
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