CELEX: 62015CN0685
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-685/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich (Austria) lodged on 18 December 2015 — Online Games Handels GmbH and Others v Landespolizeidirektion Oberösterreich

4.4.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/7
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich (Austria) lodged on 18 December 2015 — Online Games Handels GmbH and Others v Landespolizeidirektion Oberösterreich
   (Case C-685/15)
   (2016/C 118/08)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Online Games Handels GmbH, Frank Breuer, Nicole Enter, Astrid Walden
   
      Defendant authority: Landespolizeidirektion Oberösterreich
   
      Question referred
   
   Is Article 56 TFEU or Article 49 et seq. TFEU, in the light of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights read in conjunction with Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, to be interpreted, having regard to the judicial objectivity and impartiality required by the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (in particular with regard to its judgment of 18 May 2010, Application No 64962/01, paragraph 54), as precluding, in the light of the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (in particular its judgment of 30 April 2014, C-390/12, (1) a national rule according to which, in the case of administrative offence proceedings, it is not for the State prosecution services (or other State prosecution bodies) in their function of representing the prosecution but rather for the court called upon to rule on the legality of the criminal measure against which an action has been brought, of its own motion and independently of the conduct of the parties to the proceedings, (in one and the same person/function) to state and delimit wholly independently the evidence justifying the criminal law protection of the quasi-monopoly regulation of the national gambling market and then autonomously to investigate and evaluate it?
   
      (1)  ECLI:EU:C:2014:281 Pfleger and Others.