Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 December 2017

Global Starnet Ltd v Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze and Amministrazione Autonoma Monopoli di Stato

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Freedom to provide services, freedom of establishment, free movement of capital and freedom to conduct a business — Restrictions — Award of new licences for the online operation of gaming — Principles of legal certainty and protection of legitimate expectations — Judgment of the Constitutional Court — Whether or not the national court is obliged to refer a question to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling

Case C-322/16


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
National decision following the preliminary ruling
ECLI:IT:CDS:2019:658SENT
19/07/2018 Global Starnet External Link
Judgment (OJ)
09/02/2018 Global Starnet
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2017:985
20/12/2017 Global Starnet
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2017:985
20/12/2017 Global Starnet
Application (OJ)
02/09/2016 Global Starnet
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2017:442
08/06/2017 Global Starnet
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.01 Reference to the Court of Justice
      3.04.01.02 Optional or mandatory reference
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.01 The various services


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 07/06/2016

Date of the Opinion

  • 08/06/2017

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

20/12/2017


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 72 from 26.02.2018, p.15

Application: OJ C 343 from 19.09.2016, p.23

Name of the parties

Global Starnet

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Gindler, Michael: Niederlassungsfreiheit: Konzessionen für den Betrieb von Online-Glücksspielen, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 2018 p.284-286 (DE)
  2. Lazzerini, Nicole: Il rapporto tra primato del diritto dell'Unione e tutela costituzionale dei diritti fondamentali nella sentenza Taricco-bis: buona la seconda?, Rivista di diritto internazionale 2018 p.234-242 (IT)
  3. Fortunato, Susanna: I rapporti tra obbligo di rinvio pregiudiziale e giudizio di constituzionalità: il caso italiano dei giochi d'azzardo, Il Foro italiano 2018 IV Col. pag. 434-442 (IT)
  4. Prevedourou, Evgenia V.: Schési prodikastikís kai elégchoy syntagmatikótitas ethnikōn diatáxeōn, Dioikitiki Diki 2018 p. (EL)
  5. Simon, Denys: Renvoi préjudiciel - Obligation de renvoi, Europe 2018, Février nº 2, Comm. 52 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Consiglio di Stato - Italy

Subject-matter

  • Freedom of establishment
  • Freedom to provide services
  • Free movement of capital

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

première chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Rodin

Advocate General

Wahl

Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English