Uber Suffers EU Setback Over Law That Put French Bosses on Trial
- EU court opinion rejects Uber view that French law is illegal
- Case questions whether UberPop is a transport service, or app
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Uber Technologies Inc. suffered another setback in the European Union after an adviser to the bloc’s top court backed a French law that led to sanctions for top managers in the country.
EU nations “may prohibit and punish the illegal exercise of a transport activity such as UberPop without having to notify the” European Commission of the draft law, Maciej Szpunar, an advocate general at the EU Court of Justice, said in a non-binding opinion delivered on Tuesday.