54It is also settled law that, even in the absence of harmonisation in this area, such a restriction of the freedom to provide services may, where it is applicable to all individuals or undertakings carrying on business in the territory of the host Member State, be justified by an overriding reason in the public interest to the extent that it is appropriate for securing the attainment of the objective which it pursues and does not go beyond what is necessary in order to attain it, and in so far as that interest is not safeguarded by the rules to which such a service provider is subject in the Member State of establishment (see, to that effect, inter alia, Joined Cases C-369/96 and C-376/96 Arblade and Others [1999] ECR I-8453, paragraphs 34 and 35 and the case-law cited, and Case C-439/99 Commission v Italy [2002] ECR I-305, paragraph 23 and the case-law cited).
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