Key legal question
Whether operation of the Crazy Changer machines constituted an offense under Art. 56(1)(a) SBG without a prior ESBK qualification decision under Art. 64 VSBG.
Extracted holding
The offense under Art. 56(1)(a) SBG is not established before the ESBK has, in the prescribed administrative procedure, qualified the machine as a gambling machine.
Extracted reasoning
The statutory scheme requires prior presentation and an ESBK decision on classification; otherwise criminal courts may not decide the machine's nature incidentally, because that would bypass the specialized administrative procedure and risk conflicting decisions.