Gaming Intelligence Group today reports that the Swedish Supreme Court has ordered the Court of Appeal to test the compatibility of the country’s lottery law with existing European law.
Daily newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen have been battling for years to overturn a District Court ruling which barred them from accepting foreign gaming ads.
According to the Group, the ruling by the Supreme Court means the Court of Appeal must hear the case against the newspapers, which just last month published an open letter to the EU Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy demanding he act against Swedish authorities over the advertising ban which they claim breaches Articles 12, 43, and 49 of the EC treaty.
