CELEX: C2006/326/50
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-409/06: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Köln (Germany) lodged on 9 October 2006 — Winner Wetten GmbH v Mayor of Bergheim

30.12.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/25
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Köln (Germany) lodged on 9 October 2006 — Winner Wetten GmbH v Mayor of Bergheim
   (Case C-409/06)
   (2006/C 326/50)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Verwaltungsgericht Köln
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Winner Wetten GmbH
   
      Defendant: Mayor of Bergheim
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Are Article 43 EC and Article 49 EC to be interpreted as meaning that national rules governing a State monopoly on sports betting, which contain impermissible restrictions on the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services enshrined in Article 43 EC and Article 49 EC, inasmuch as they do not serve to limit betting activities in a consistent and systematic manner within the terms of the Court's case-law (judgment in Case C-243/01 Gambelli and Others [2003] ECR-13031), may still continue to apply for a transitional period on an exceptional basis, notwithstanding the primacy of directly applicable Community law?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If Question 1 is to be answered in the affirmative: what conditions need to be met for the purpose of derogating from that primacy and how is the transitional period to be determined?