74Furthermore, as the Commission points out, the Portuguese legislation in issue in the main proceedings is substantially similar to the Finnish legislation on slot machines, in issue in Läärä and Others, in respect of which the Court found that it was not disproportionate, in view of the objectives which justified it (Läärä and Others, cited above, paragraph 42). Moreover, the Court considered that limited authorisation of gambling on the basis of special or exclusive rights granted or assigned to certain bodies, falls within the ambit of such public-interest objectives (Case C-67/98 Zenatti [1999] ECR I-7289, paragraph 35).
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