Several follow-up decisions to the ECJ’s Gambelli decision, a fundamental decision on the freedom to provide services with regard to sports betting, are at hand. As reported, the ECJ will probably pronounce its judgement in the joined cases of Placanica et. al. (Cases C-338/04, C-359/04 and C-360/04) in the course of this year. If the Court follows the Advocate General’s opinion on these three Italian cases, delivered on 16 May 2006, this would mean the factual end of the state monopoly on sports betting and games of chance in Germany.