25It must be recalled, as all the parties which lodged observations before the Court have done, that, disregarding Article 46 EC, the national measures liable to hinder or make less attractive the exercise of fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty must, according to settled case-law, fulfil four conditions in order to comply with Article 43 EC and Article 49 EC: they must be applied in a nondiscriminatory manner, they must be justified by imperative requirements in the general interest, they must be suitable for securing the attainment of the objective which they pursue, and they must not go beyond what is necessary in order to attain it (see Case C-19/92 Kraus [1993] ECR I-1663, paragraph 32; Case C-55/94 Gebhard [1995] ECR I-4165, paragraph 37; and Case C-243/01 Gambetti and Others [2003] ECR I-13031, paragraphs 64 and 65).
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