Uber [UBER. UL] played down an EU court opinion on Tuesday that some of its services could be illegal, saying that the case concerned only a ride-hailing app service in France which it no longer provides.
« We have seen today’s statement and await the final ruling later this year, » an Uber spokeswoman said in an email. « This case relates to a French law from 2014 and affects peer-to-peer services which we stopped in 2015. Uber today works only with professional licensed drivers in France. »
An advocate general for the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) said on Tuesday in a non-binding opinion that illegal transport activities like UberPOP may be criminal.
(Reporting by Julia Fioretti; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
