Judgment_paragraph 21 · ‘4finance’ UAB v Valstybinė vartotojų teisių apsaugos tarnyba and Valstybinė mokesčių inspekcija prie Lietuvos Respublikos finansų ministerijos (C-515/12)

21It is common ground that, when there is no effective economic activity to generate enough revenue to fund the compensation promised to consumers, such a promotion scheme is necessarily based on the economic contribution of its participants, since the opportunity for a member of that scheme to receive compensation depends essentially on the fees paid by additional members.