Judgment_paragraph 58 · Azienda sanitaria locale n. 5 ‘Spezzino’ and Others v San Lorenzo Soc. coop. Sociale and Croce Verde Cogema cooperativa sociale Onlus (C-113/13)

58In the second place, it must be recalled that, in paragraph 32 of the judgment in Sodemare and Others, EU:C:1997:301, the Court held that a Member State may, in the exercise of the powers it retains to organise its social security system, consider that a social welfare system for elderly people necessarily implies, with a view to attaining its objectives, that the admission of private operators to that system as providers of social welfare services is to be made subject to the condition that they are non-profit-making.