The Court of Justice of the European Union has deemed changes to Hungary’s gambling laws that ban amusement arcades from operating slot machines as infringing on the right to provide services, ordering the Hungarian legal system to determine whether such restrictions can be justified.
The amusement arcades were banned from offering slot machines by an amendment to Paragraph 26(3) of the Law XXXIV of 1991 on the organisation of games of chance on October 2nd 2012, [...]