Brussels, 31/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - Some elements of the Italian system of licences and authorisation for organising games of chance and gathering sports bets remain incompatible with EU law, in the view of Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalon in his opinion delivered on Thursday 27 October in joined Cases C-72/10 and C-77/10.
The Court has already ruled on this issue in the Gambelli and Placanica cases in 2003 and 2007 (Cases C-243/01 and Joined Cases C-338/04, C-359/04 and C-360/04,...