In 1990, Tiercé Ladbroke, the Belgian subsidiary of Ladbroke Group, the largest bookmaker in the United Kingdom, lodged a complaint with the Commission alleging that Articles 85 and 86 of the EEC Treaty had been infringed by: (a) GIE Pari Mutuel Urbain ("PMU"), a body running a totalizator betting system which was set up under French law by the ten racecourse organizers in France, the sociétés de courses; (b) the ten société de courses themselves; (c) Pari Mutuel International SA (PMI), a subsidiary of PMU set up to manage its rights abroad; (d) Deutscher Sportverlag ...[+++]Kurt Stoof GmbH Co ("DSV"), Cologne, which is PMU's sublicensee in Germany. 1. The ten sociétés de courses hold the intellectual property rights to the races they organize; Ladbroke claimed that they had infringed Article 86 of the EEC Treaty by refusing to supply Tiercé Ladbroke in Belgium with television coverage of French races comprising sound, pictures and commentary.

In the same vein, clause 6 of the bill replaces the word “telephone” with “any means of telecommunication” to extend the legality of parimutuel wagering on horse races, regardless of the means of telecommunication used to transmit wagers to a regulated race track betting theatre (96)

In the same vein, clause 6 of the bill replaces the word “telephone” with “any means of telecommunication” to extend the legality of parimutuel wagering on horse races, regardless of the means of telecommunication used to transmit wagers to a regulated race track betting theatre (99)