27In this context, it should be recalled that, according to the Court’s case-law, it follows from Article 1(11) of Directive 98/34 that the concept of ‘technical regulation’ covers - apart from the category of rules on information society services within the meaning of Article 1(2) and (5) of that directive, a category which is not, however, affected by the main proceedings given that the national provisions at issue in those cases relate to low-prize gaming machines as ‘products’ within the meaning of Article 1(1) - three categories, namely (i) the ‘technical specification’ within the meaning of Article 1(3) of the directive, (ii) ‘other requirements’, as defined in Article 1(4) of the directive, and (iii) the prohibition of the manufacture, importation, marketing or use of a product, referred to in Article 1(11) of the directive (see Case C-267/03 Lindberg [2005] ECR I-3247, paragraph 54; Case C-20/05 Schwibbert [2007] ECR I-9447, paragraph 34; and Intercommunale Intermosane and Fédération de l’industrie et du gaz, paragraph 11).
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