Exclusive right: The Council of State applies for an ECJ preliminary ruling on the compatibility with EU law of horse betting company’s exclusive right (Zeturf - PMU)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – EC, 9 May 2008, Zeturf Ltd, No 287503 Is the dispute between Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) and the Maltese company Zeturf Limited, which operates an online betting site for horse races, about to find its epilogue? It will be recalled that the Court of Cassation annulled the judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal confirming the summary judgment against the company Zeturf, whose activity "caused a manifestly unlawful disturbance in that it infringed the exclusive right reserved by law for the PMU to organize, outside racecourses, bets on horse races taking place in France" (CA Paris, 14th ch, Sect., 4 Jan. 2006, Zeturf and Eturf v/PMU, AJDA 2006, p. 482). It is