CELEX: 62016CA0049
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-49/16: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Unibet International Ltd. v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Központi Hivatala (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Freedom to provide services — Restrictions — Conditions for the award of a concession for the organisation of online games of chance — Practical impossibility of obtaining such a licence for private operators established in other Member States)

21.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 277/14
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Unibet International Ltd. v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Központi Hivatala
   (Case C-49/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Freedom to provide services - Restrictions - Conditions for the award of a concession for the organisation of online games of chance - Practical impossibility of obtaining such a licence for private operators established in other Member States))
   (2017/C 277/18)
   Language of the case: Hungarian
   
      Referring court
   
   Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Unibet International Ltd.
   
      Defendant: Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Központi Hivatala
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
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               Article 56 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which introduces a system of concessions and licences for the organisation of online games of chance, if it contains discriminatory rules with regard to operators established in other Member States or if it lays down rules which are not discriminatory but which are applied in a manner which is not transparent or are implemented in such a way as to prevent or hinder an application from certain tenderers established in other Member States;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Article 56 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding penalties, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, imposed for the infringement of national legislation introducing a system of concessions and licences for the organisation of games of chance, if such national legislation proves to be contrary to Article 56 TFEU.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 136, 18.4.2016.