VICTORY for EU Internet Gaming ! :)

VICTORY for EU Internet Gaming ! :): "Placanica ruling NEWS
The egaming industry has welcomed today’s judgement from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Placanica case which has suggested the European state gambling monopolies are violating fundamental principles of freedom to provide services.

The ECJ ruling states that the attempts by the Italian authorities in 2004 to attempt to charge three individuals – Mr Placanica, Mr Palazzese and Mr Soricchio – with criminal charges for collecting bets on behalf of Stanley International without the required police authorisation was “contrary to community law”.

Today’s judgement went on to say that though a licensing system “may constitute an efficient mechanism enabling the control of operators, the blanket exclusion of companies from tender procedures for the award of licenses goes beyond what is necessary in order to achieve the objective of preventing operators active in the betting and gaming sector from being involved in criminal or fraudulent activities”.

Peter Nylander, chief executive of Unibet, said once again the ECJ had questioned the gambling monopolies. “This will accelerate the break-up of the existing monopolies in Europe,” he added. “The time for the monopolies is over.”

Another industry figure said: “It makes a change for something to"