Judgment_paragraph 41 · Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst Douane, district Rotterdam v Sea-Land Service Inc. and Nedlloyd Lijnen BV (C-430/99, C-431/99)

41Next, with regard to the question whether there are overriding reasons based on the general interest which may justify the restriction on freedom to provide services resulting from that system, it must be remembered that the protection of public security is one of the reasons which may, under Article 56(1) of the Treaty, justify restrictions resulting from special treatment for foreign nationals. Protection of public security is therefore, in principle, also capable of justifying a national measure which applies indiscriminately, as in the cases in the main proceedings (see, to that effect, Case C-108/96 Mac Quen and Others [2001] ECR I-837, paragraph 28).

Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst Douane, district Rotterdam v Sea-Land Service Inc. and Nedlloyd Lijnen BV (C-430/99, C-431/99)

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