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Document 62020CO0437

Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 10 January 2022.
Criminal proceedings against ZI and TQ.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 53(2) Rules of Procedure of the Court – Games of chance – Licences for the collection of bets – Extension of existing licences – Regularisation of data transmission centres (DTC) engaged in the collection of bets without the necessary licence and police authorisation – Limited period – Manifest inadmissibility of the reference for a preliminary ruling.
Case C-437/20.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2022:53

 Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 10 January 2022 – ZI and TQ

(Case C‑437/20)

( Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 53(2) Rules of Procedure of the Court – Games of chance – Licences for the collection of bets – Extension of existing licences – Regularisation of data transmission centres (DTC) engaged in the collection of bets without the necessary licence and police authorisation – Limited period – Manifest inadmissibility of the reference for a preliminary ruling)

1. 

Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Questions referred lacking sufficient information regarding the legislative context and the reasons justifying the need for an answer to the questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Impossibility for the Court to determine the applicability and relevance of the provisions of EU law relied on – Manifest inadmissibility

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

(see paras 18-21, 25-27, 31, operative part)

2. 

Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Questions referred without sufficient information on the factual and legislative context – Questions submitted in a context which precludes a useful answer – Manifest inadmissibility

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

(see paras 29, 30)

Operative part

The request for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunale di Parma (Parma District Court, Italy), by decision of 8 November 2019, is manifestly inadmissible.

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