35Article 56 TFEU requires not only the elimination of all discrimination on grounds of nationality against providers of services who are established in another Member State, but also the abolition of any restriction on the freedom to provide services, even if that restriction applies without distinction to national providers of services and to those of other Member States, which is liable to prohibit, impede or render less attractive the activities of a service provider established in another Member State where it lawfully provides similar services (see, to that effect, judgments in Sporting Exchange, C‑203/08, EU:C:2010:307, paragraph 23 and the case-law cited, and HIT and HIT LARIX, C‑176/11, EU:C:2012:454, paragraph 16).
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