The Italian legislation prohibiting private companies from carrying out the activity of guarding funeral urns constitutes an unjustified restriction on the freedom of establishment contrary to European Union law, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday 14 November (Case C-342/17).
The Italian company Memoria brought an action before the Italian courts challenging a 2015 regulation by the municipality of Padua excluding the possibility for the depositary of a funeral urn to use the...