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Titolo: La corte Europea ha proibito all'Italia il blocco dei bookmaker stranieri

Dal New York Times di oggi:
"Italian Case May Open Up Crossborder Gambling
 LONDON, March 6 - The top European court on Tuesday prohibited Italy
from prosecuting bookmakers based in other European countries, a
ruling that private companies hailed as a milestone in efforts to pry
European betting markets from government-run monopolies.
Online operators have used licenses from one country in Europe to try
to operate in neighboring countries, arguing the European Union's
single market permitted this.
But countries like France and Germany, where national gambling
monopolies provide a lucrative revenue stream, have tried to curb
their activities. While stopping short of the approach in the United
States, where some foreign Internet gambling executives were arrested
and one was charged, France and Germany have moved against online
operators.
Tuesday's decision "will open up the European market, the German
market certainly," said Martin Arendts, a German lawyer who works with
gambling companies.
"It's a big step further than the Gambelli decision," he added,
referring to a 2003 case in which the European Court of Justice ruled
that European countries could not block crossborder gambling operators
simply to defend state-run providers, but could in order to protect
society from the perceived ills of gambling.
In its Tuesday ruling, the court, in Luxembourg, said Italy could not
use the threat of criminal charges to try to stop three people who
operated gambling shops where customers could place bets that were
transferred to a British gambling company, Stanleybet International.
But the court left some gray areas.
The ruling applies only to sports betting, and it stops short of
explicitly endorsing the idea that holders of a betting license in one
European country should be able to operate without borders, lawyers
said.
The German federation of state lottery systems, Deutscher Lotto- und
Totoblock, said the decision vindicated its position, noting that
Germany was in a different situation than Italy, where the government
recently allowed some private gambling operators to compete with the
state-run provider.
"The situation in Italy is completely different from the one in
Germany," said Friedhelm Repnik, head of the gambling organization in
the state of Baden-Württemberg, which is part of the national
grouping.
"There, there is a partial opening of the market; here, a clear state
monopoly, whose central justification is the protection of gamblers
and the prevention of addiction," Mr. Repnik said.
Mr. Arendts said the decision could cast doubt on efforts by the
authorized lottery operators in the individual German states to try to
enshrine their monopoly status.
European governments say they want to maintain control over online
gambling because they can best protect consumers from possible
problems linked to Internet betting, even if they do not object to
gambling in principle.
But they have generally stopped short of the approach in the United
States, where last year President Bush signed into law a prohibition
on financial dealings with Internet gambling companies.
Amid the American crackdown, executives of several online gambling
companies and related businesses have been arrested during stopovers
in the United States.
The European Commission in Brussels, however, is on a track that could
put it at odds not only with the United States approach but also with
the governments of member states. It has warned France, Germany and
Italy, among others, that they are potentially violating rules seeking
to create a single market in goods and services across the European
Union."

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