74With regard, secondly, to the objectives pursued by that legislation, the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and the Spanish Government contend that that legislation, by allowing an appropriate territorial cover, by guaranteeing the quality of the service and by promoting competition, seeks, as is expressly clear from the preamble to Decree 45/2010, both to protect consumers and to ensure road safety. According to the Court’s settled case-law, both consumer protection (see, to that effect, judgments in Attanasio Group, C‑384/08, EU:C:2010:133, paragraph 50, and in Essent and Others, C‑105/12 to C‑107/12, EU:C:2013:677, paragraph 58) and the need to ensure road safety (judgment in Commission v Portugal, C‑438/08, EU:C:2009:651, paragraph 48 and the case-law cited) constitute overriding reasons in the public interest which are capable of justifying restrictions on freedom of establishment.
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