CELEX: 62019CA0711
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-711/19: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Admiral Sportwetten GmbH, Novomatic AG, AKO Gastronomiebetriebs GmbH v Magistrat der Stadt Wien (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive (EU) 2015/1535 — Article 1 — Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations and of rules on Information Society services — Definition of ‘technical regulation’ — Games of chance — Local duty on the operation of betting terminals — Tax rule — European Commission not notified — Enforceability against the taxpayer)

30.11.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 414/16
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Austria) — Admiral Sportwetten GmbH, Novomatic AG, AKO Gastronomiebetriebs GmbH v Magistrat der Stadt Wien
      (Case C-711/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive (EU) 2015/1535 - Article 1 - Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations and of rules on Information Society services - Definition of ‘technical regulation’ - Games of chance - Local duty on the operation of betting terminals - Tax rule - European Commission not notified - Enforceability against the taxpayer)
      (2020/C 414/19)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Admiral Sportwetten GmbH, Novomatic AG, AKO Gastronomiebetriebs GmbH
      
         Defendant: Magistrat der Stadt Wien
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 1 of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations and of rules on Information Society services must be interpreted as meaning that a national tax rule that provides for taxation of the operation of betting terminals does not constitute a ‘technical regulation’ within the meaning of that article.
      
         (1)  OJ C 406, 2.12.2019.