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Version date: 1 January 2016 - onwards
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Article 2

Repealed from 1 January 2016

1. Member States shall in particular abolish the following restrictions:

(a) those which prevent beneficiaries fromĀ  establishing themselves in the host country under the same conditions and with the same rights as nationals of that country;

(b) those existing by reason of administrative practices which result in treatment being applied to beneficiaries that is discriminatory by comparison with that applied to nationals.

2. The restrictions to be abolished shall include in particular those arising out of measures which prevent or limit the establishment of beneficiaries by the following means:

(a) In Germany:

the provisions granting the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs the discretionary right to impose its own conditions of access to this business on foreign nationals and to prevent them from pursuing this business within the Federal Republic (Law of 6 June 1931 (VAG), Article 106(2), No 1, in conjunction with Article 8(1), No 3, Article 106(2), last sentence, and Article 111

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