Originally Posted by
common toad
EU trumps national government on law making.
Ponder that …
Until we care to differentiate what actually happened. The basic layout says ANYTHING is allowed unless restricted with conditions or forbidden by a law.
On this occastion, the government tried to cull a right to conduct business and provide public service (implicit within the conditions of a licence) and the entities involved appealed to a higher instance 'above their government'.
According to the rules in place, which the French state signed for and help create for long decades in the first place, that regulatory move was found illegal. The EU organs whom the French state help create themselves declared a non-compliance on the edict, in favour of the to-be-restricted stakeholders.
Like it.
Does it open a Pandora's box? Not necessarily but better make sure it don't - good call as well.