30.7.2011

Official Journal of the European Union

C 226/10

(Case C-176/11)

2011/C 226/18

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: HIT hoteli, igralnice, turizem d.d. Nova Gorica and HIT LARIX, prirejanje posebnih iger na sreco in turizem d.d.

Defendant: Bundesminister für Finanzen

Question referred

Is a rule of national law which permits the domestic advertising of casinos located outside the national territory only where the legal protection for gamblers in those foreign locations corresponds to the protection under domestic law compatible with the freedom to provide services?