A senior EU lawyer has said individual member states should be able to ban ride-hailing service Uber because it is an ordinary transport company and not a service provider. Uber played down the comments.Maciej Szpunar – an advocate general with the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice – on Tuesday said EU member states can ban the ride-hailing pioneer Uber without informing the European Commission because at its core Uber is an ordinary transport company under their individual jurisdictions. The lawyer also said that France was entitled to charge local managers of the American ride-hailing app firm with running an illegal taxi service. Last year Uber was fined 800,000 euros ($908,000) and two of its executives were also fined for running an illegal taxi service. Nonetheless, Uber said it now only operates in France with licensed cab drivers, as it does in many of its main European markets.

Source: Daily News Egypt July 05, 2017 11:03 UTC