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EU Supreme Courts are setting up a severe strike against the rides and other ministries could be hit by cross fire. There' s a taxi business. This is today the judgment of the European Courts, the supreme courts of the European Communities, which interpret the law of the European Communities and ensure that it is applied in all the Member States.

Uber has of course been resisting this record for a long time. She presents herself as a numerical plattform for networking humans and not as a taxi service. However, a taxi company in Barcelona in 2014 contested this allegation in the courts and was disappointed that Ubers income had been partially and unfairly supported by poorer wages and terms for drivers .

The devastating verdict of Wednesday against Uber, who tried to challenge the Hispanic verdict before the ECJ, is a bomb. This not only means that the business is faced with much tougher rules across the EU, it also undermines the way Uber has tried to be defined on a global basis. However, the judgment of the European Court of Justice is clear enough: an undertaking whose service consists in "connecting to its own car, by means of a smart phone request and for a fee, with a person wishing to travel in a city" must be regarded as "a service in the traffic sector".

" That does not necessarily mean that there will be a rule shift over night; in fact, it will only directly concern four states in which regulation is not yet in place: Uber is already active in other EU member states within the framework of domestic transition legislation following a succession of litigation cases. It has already discontinued the low-cost ÜberPOP service with non-professional chauffeurs in several Member States, among them the whole of Scandinavia.

Moreover, the judgment itself would not necessarily prevent Uber from resuming a service in Barcelona, but would merely demand that it adhere to the same standard as traditional taxi service and thus undermine any possible career benefit. Ueber has largely tried to go beyond the idea that it is a normal business that employs real people, so that it is able to ignore fundamental needs of employees such as illness and holidays.

Wednesday's decision blows this bladder. Uber's app-based call system may have been the groundbreaking formula for its triumph, but the proposal that it is not a transport operator is becoming harder to hold. Similar app-based companies such as foods shipping companies, such as Grubhub and Deliveroo, may also be under further increased pressures to handle the individuals providing their service as normal staff.

Deliveroo in the UK has recently been given the right not to charge its carriers the statutory wages or health insurance, a judgment that is now more open to appeal. At the end of an exceptionally difficult year for Uber, the verdict comes. Known structural and for allegations of molestation, the firm is currently lodging an appeal against London's September resolution not to extend its licence, a move that will result in Ubers cars disappearing from the city's roads if respected.

Whilst this may take years for the business to complete, the firm is still under heavy strain from the UK Taxi Driver's Trade Unions, which says that Uber's working environment poses a risk to security. Whilst the ease of his application means that Uber still has many Europeans using it, the uncontrolled flood that enabled her to launch so quickly across Europe now seems to be turning, and quickly.