35As regards the substance, it is settled case-law that the free movement of services provided for in Article 56 TFEU requires not only the elimination of all discrimination on grounds of nationality against providers of services established in other Member States, but also the abolition of any restriction – even if it applies without distinction to national providers of services and to those from other Member States – which is liable to prohibit, impede or render less attractive the activities of a provider of services established in another Member State where he lawfully provides similar services (see, to that effect, Case C-205/99 Analir and Others [2001] ECR I-1271, paragraph 21, and Case C-439/99 Commission v Italy [2002] ECR I-305, paragraph 22).
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