In a ruling delivered on Tuesday 10 April in Case C-320/16, the judges at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that member states may prohibit and punish, as a matter of criminal law, the illegal exercise of transport activities in the context of the UberPop service, without notifying the Commission in advance of the draft legislation. This decision therefore goes in the same direction as the conclusions of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar on 4 July last (see EUROPE 11822).
The French...