ECJ: Advocate General finds national rules prohibiting a company registered in a Member State to transfer its operational headquarters to another Member State incompatible with the freedom of establishment

On 22 May 2008, Advocate General Poiares Maduro of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave his opinion in the case of Cartesio Oktató és Szolgáltató bt (C-210/06). The Court of Appeal, Szeged had requested a preliminary ruling from the ECJ on 5 May 2006. In this case, the Advocate General concluded the following:
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