38The Court has thus held that the abolition as between Member States of obstacles to the freedom of movement for persons and to the freedom to provide services, which is a fundamental objective of the European Community contained in Article 3(c) of the EEC Treaty (repealed by the Treaty of Lisbon), replaced in essence by Articles 3 to 6 TFEU, would be compromised if the abolition of barriers of national origin could be neutralised by obstacles resulting from the exercise of their legal autonomy by associations or organisations which do not come under public law (see, to that effect, judgment of 12 December 1974, Walrave and Koch, 36/74, EU:C:1974:140, paragraph 18).
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