21As regards the breach of Articles 18 EC, 43 EC and 56 EC, the Kingdom of Belgium submits that the Flemish legislation should be examined only in relation to the free movement of capital, since, according to settled case-law, first, the acquisition of immovable property in a Member State by a non-resident constitutes a movement of capital between Member States (see Case C-302/97 Konle [1999] ECR I-3099, paragraph 22, and Case C-423/98 Albore [2000] ECR I-5965, paragraph 14), the restriction of the freedom of establishment thus being merely a direct consequence of the restriction of the free movement of capital (Case 203/80 Casati [1981] ECR 2595, paragraph 8). The Kingdom of Belgium also refers to the judgments in Case C-367/98 Commission v Portugal [2002] ECR I-4731, Case C-483/99 Commission v France [2002] ECR I-4781 and Case C-503/99 Commission v Belgium [2002] ECR I-4809 on that point.
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