BELGIUM Trends and Developments Contributed by: Pieter Paepe and Christoph de Preter, EDSON
In a noteworthy judgment of 28 February 2018 con- cerning Hungarian gambling legislation (Case C-3/17), the CJEU clarified that a restriction that reserves access to the market for online games of chance to casino operators situated on national territory is dis- proportionate and therefore contrary to the EU free- dom to provide services. If a similar logic were to be applied in Belgian online gambling legislation, this EU judgment suggests that the requirement to have and operate an offline licence as a condition for obtaining an online licence is at odds with EU law.
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