58It is settled case-law of the Court of Justice that Article 56 TFEU requires not only the elimination of all discrimination against providers of services on grounds of nationality or the fact that they are established in a Member State other than that where the services are to be provided, but also the abolition of any restriction, even if it applies without distinction to national providers of services and to those of other Member States, which is liable to prohibit, impede or render less advantageous the activities of a provider of services established in another Member State where he lawfully provides similar services (Joined Cases C-369/96 and C-376/96 Arblade and Others [1999] ECR I-8453, paragraph 33, and Case C-577/10 Commission v Belgium [2012] ECR, paragraph 38 and the case-law cited).
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