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2012/C 65/07
Language of the case: Italian
Do Articles 43 EC and 49 EC on freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services in the sporting bets industry authorise national legislation establishing a monopoly regime and a system of concessions and authorisations which, in the context of a given number of concessions, makes provision for:
(a) the existence of a general tendency to protect the holders of concessions granted during an earlier period on the basis of a procedure which unlawfully excluded some of the operators;
(b) the presence of provisions which de facto guarantee the maintenance of commercial positions acquired at the end of a procedure which unlawfully excluded some of the operators (as, for example, the prohibition on new concession holders from installing their counters at less than a given distance from those already existing; and
(c) the fixing of hypotheses for the expiry of the concession and the acquisition of guarantees of a very high amount, such hypotheses including that in which the concessionnaire directly or indirectly operates cross-border gaming activities comparable with those forming the subject-matter of the concession?