Court of Justice 8 June 2004, C-46/02 (Fixtures Marketing Ltd v Oy Veikkaus Ab.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Preliminary observations 1. This reference for a preliminary ruling is one of four parallel sets of proceedings (2) concerning the interpretation of Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases (3) (‘the Directive’).