65As regards, second, the context of Article 3(1) and (2) of Directive 2010/13 and the objectives of the directive, it must be noted — as the Advocate General does in point 59 of his Opinion — that, while that directive gives expression to the freedom to provide services guaranteed in Article 56 TFEU in the field of audiovisual media services by introducing, as stated in recital 104, ‘an area without internal frontiers’ for those services, account is taken at the same time, as stated in recital 5, of the cultural as well as economic nature of those services and their importance for democracy, education and culture, justifying the application of specific rules to those services.
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