Judgment_paragraph 98 · Safe Interenvios, SA v Liberbank, SA and Others (C-235/14)

98It is settled case-law of the Court that Article 56 TFEU requires not only the elimination of all discrimination against providers of services on grounds of nationality or the fact that they are established in a Member State other than that where the services are to be provided, but also the abolition of any restriction, even if it applies without distinction to national providers of services and to those of other Member States, which is liable to prohibit, impede or render less advantageous the activities of a provider of services established in another Member State where he lawfully provides similar services (judgment in Jyske Bank Gibraltar, C‑212/11, EU:C:2013:270, paragraph 58 and the case-law cited). Furthermore, Article 56 TFEU precludes the application of any national rules which have the effect of making the provision of services, within the meaning of Article 57 TFEU, between Member States more difficult than the provision of services purely within one Member State (judgments in Cipolla and Others, C‑94/04 and C‑202/04, EU:C:2006:758, paragraph 57, and Commission v Belgium, C‑296/12, EU:C:2014:24, paragraph 29).