{"id":13416,"date":"2026-06-29T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:27:31","slug":"industries-isp-the-eu-court-of-justice-on-national-restrictions-to-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/industries-isp-the-eu-court-of-justice-on-national-restrictions-to-online-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"INDUSTRIES, ISP | The EU Court of Justice on national restrictions to online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 April 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (<strong><em>CJEU<\/em><\/strong>) issued its judgment in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=CELEX:62023CJ0440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case C-440\/23<\/a>\u00a0(<em>FB v European Lotto and Betting Ltd and Deutsche Lotto-und\u00a0Sportwetten\u00a0Ltd<\/em>), clarifying the extent to which Member States may restrict online gambling services offered by operators licensed in another Member State.\u00a0The case arose from a restitution claim brought by a German player against two Malta-based operators offering online gambling services in Germany at a time when such services were, in principle, prohibited under German law.\u00a0The CJEU held that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/treaty\/tfeu_2008\/art_56\/oj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 56\u00a0TFEU<\/a>\u00a0does not\u00a0preclude\u00a0national legislation prohibiting online casino games, including slot machines, and certain forms of online betting, where that legislation pursues legitimate\u00a0objectives\u00a0such as\u00a0channeling\u00a0gambling into controlled circuits and combating\u00a0unauthorized\u00a0parallel markets.\u00a0Notably, the CJEU\u00a0confirmed\u00a0that the\u00a0subsequent\u00a0introduction of an\u00a0authorization\u00a0regime does not affect the legal consequences of\u00a0a previous\u00a0prohibition, including the nullity of contracts concluded in breach thereof and consumers\u2019 right to seek restitution of lost stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Newsletter n. 119 &#8211; June 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 April 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in\u00a0case C-440\/23\u00a0(FB v European Lotto and Betting Ltd and Deutsche Lotto-und\u00a0Sportwetten\u00a0Ltd), clarifying the extent to which Member States may restrict online gambling services offered by operators licensed in another Member State.\u00a0The case arose from a restitution claim brought by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}