CELEX: 62018CB0665
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-665/18: Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Pólus Vegas Kft. v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Fellebbviteli Igazgatósága (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 53(2) and Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Freedom to provide services — Restrictions — Games of chance — National taxes on the operation of slot machines in amusement arcades — National legislation increasing the amount of a tax five-fold and introducing an additional tax)

26.8.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 288/7
            
         
      Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság — Hungary) — Pólus Vegas Kft. v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Fellebbviteli Igazgatósága
      (Case C-665/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 53(2) and Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Freedom to provide services - Restrictions - Games of chance - National taxes on the operation of slot machines in amusement arcades - National legislation increasing the amount of a tax five-fold and introducing an additional tax)
      (2019/C 288/08)
      Language of the case: Hungarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Fővárosi Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Pólus Vegas Kft.
      
         Defendant: Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Fellebbviteli Igazgatósága
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      Article 56 TFEU, read in the light of the judgment of 11 June 2015, Berlington Hungary and Others (C-98/14, EU:C:2015:386), must be interpreted as meaning, in so far as concerns the operation of slot machines in a Member State, a cross-border situation cannot be presumed to exist on the sole ground that EU citizens from other Member States may avail themselves of such gaming opportunities.
      
         (1)  OJ C 122, 1.4.2019.