Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 4 April 2019 — Finanzamt Linz (Austrian legislation on games of chance)

(Case C‑545/18)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 53(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Principles of EU law — Primacy — National rules requiring the lower courts to follow the interpretation of the higher courts — Restriction of the matters referred to the higher courts to the assessment of points of law and of the pleas raised before the lower courts)

Questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Admissibility — Statement of the reasons for requiring an answer to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling — Scope of the obligation in the context of the fundamental freedoms

(Art. 267 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 23; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 53(2) and 94)

(see paras 19-21, 25-31)

Operative part

The request for a preliminary ruling made by the Landesverwaltungsgericht Oberösterreich (Regional Administrative Court of Upper Austria, Austria), by decision of 16 August 2018, is manifestly inadmissible.