Judgment_paragraph 49 · Edgard Jan De Clercq and Others (C-315/13)

49Article 16(2)(g) of Directive 2006/123 provides that the Member States may not restrict the freedom to provide services, in the case of a provider established in another Member State, by imposing the restrictions on the freedom to provide services referred to in Article 19 of that directive. However, as Mr Edgard De Clercq, Mr Emiel De Clercq and Ms Rottiers maintain, it follows from a combined reading of Article 16(2)(g) and Article 19(a) of Directive 2006/123 that the Member States may not impose on a recipient of services requirements which restrict the use of a service supplied by a provider established in another Member State, in particular the obligation to make a declaration to their competent authorities.