50In addition, the Court’s case-law has identified a number of overriding reasons in the public interest capable of justifying restrictions on the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty. Reasons already recognised by the Court include the objectives of road safety (see, inter alia, Case C-55/93 van Schaik [1994] ECR I-4837, paragraph 19, and Case C-54/05 Commission v Finland [2007] ECR I-2473, paragraph 40 and the case-law cited), environmental protection (see, inter alia, Case 302/86 Commission v Denmark [1988] ECR 4607, paragraph 9, and Case C-309/02 Radlberger Getränkegesellschaft and S. Spitz [2004] ECR I-11763, paragraph 75) and consumer protection (see, inter alia, Case 220/83 Commission v France [1986] ECR 3663, paragraph 20; CaixaBank France, paragraph 21, and Case C-393/05 Commission v Austria [2007] ECR I-10195, paragraph 52 and the case-law cited).
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