Case C-55/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judicial da Comarca do Porto (Portugal) lodged on 13 February 2008 — Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa v Liga Portuguesa de Fuetbol Profissional (CA/LPFP), Baw International Ltd e Betandwin.Com Interactive Entertainment
Date: 2008-02-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU law, State monopoly, advertising, free competition, freedom to provide services, game of chance, interpretation of the law

12.4.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 92/19

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal
Judicial da Comarca do Porto (Portugal)
lodged on
13 February 2008 — Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
(CA/LPFP),
v Liga Portuguesa de Fuetbol Profissional
Baw International Ltd e Betandwin.Com Interactive
Entertainment

(Case C-55/08)

(2008/C 92/35)

Language of the case: Portuguese

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tallinna
lodged on 13 February 2008 —
Halduskohus (Estonia)
ja
ja Tolliameti Põhja maksu-
Pärlitigu OÜ v Maksu-

tollikeskus

(Case C-56/08)

(2008/C 92/36)

Language of the case: Estonian

Referring court

Tribunal Judicial da Comarca do Porto (Portugal)

Parties to the main proceedings

Referring court

Tallinna Halduskohus

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa

Defendants: Liga Portuguesa de Fuetbol Profissional (CA/LPFP),
Baw International Ltd and Betandwin.Com Interactive Entertain-
ment

Questions referred

luck or chance’

1. Is the fact that the State reserves to itself the ‘right to run
games of
(Article 9 of DL 422/89 of
2 December, amended by DL 10/95 of 19 January 1995 and
by DL 40/2005 of 17 February 2005) and the right to ‘orga-
(Article 1 of DL 84/85 of
nise pool betting systems’
17 December 1985, amended by DL 317/2002) compatible
with the rules of Community law … laying down the princi-
ples of the freedom to provide services, free competition and
prohibition of State monopolies?

2. What criteria should guide interpretation of national legisla-
tion restricting those principles, for the purposes of deter-
mining whether such restriction is admissible in light of the
rules of Community law …?

3. Is the prohibition of advertising games of luck and chance
when forming the substantive content of
the message,
having regard to the exception relating to the advertising of
games organised by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de
Lisboa, compatible with the rules of Community law …
laying down the principles of
the freedom to provide
services, free competition and prohibition of State monopo-
lies?

Applicant: Pärlitigu OÜ

Defendant: Maksu- ja Tolliameti Põhja maksu- ja tollikeskus

Questions referred

(1) Must

for

the Combined Nomenclature

the Common
Customs Tariff which forms Annex I to Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2658/87 (1) of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and
statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs
Tariff be interpreted as meaning that
frozen backbones
(bones with fish meat) of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo
salar), obtained after
for human
consumption and normally marketed as a foodstuff, come
under

filleting the fish,

fit

(a) subheading 0511 91 10, ‘fish waste’,

or

(b) subheading 0303 22 00 15,
salar) — other — other’?

‘Atlantic salmon (Salmo

(2) If the answer to Question 1 is alternative (b), is the table in
Article 1(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 85/2006 (2) of
17 January 2006 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty
and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on
imports of farmed salmon originating in Norway void as
contrary to the principle of proportionality laid down in
Article 5 of the EC Treaty in so far as, according to that
table,
the minimum import price established for frozen
salmon backbones is higher than the minimum import
price for whole fish and gutted head-on fish?

(1) OJ 1987 L 256, p. 1.
(2) OJ 2006 L 15, p. 1.