How special is Centros? This contribution places Centros in internal market law. It starts by turning the judgment on its head and imagines an alternative Centros: the judgment that the Danish authorities had wished for and which the Court declined to hand down. The aim of this exercise in legal fiction is to show that the Court could have decided Centros in another way. The choices underpinning Centros are then contrasted with other internal market cases to conclude that both the real Centros and the alternative Centros are in some ways aligned with the free movement case law. It is argued that Sayde’s analysis of abuse best helps to make sense of this confusing state of play. The article ends with suggestions for further research: taking the cost dimension into account in a behavioural perspective could shed light on the allocation of regulatory powers between home state and host state.

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Centros 和内部市场

Centros 有多特别？这一贡献将 Centros 置于内部市场法中。它首先改变了判决，并想象了一个替代的 Centros：丹麦当局希望做出的判决，但法院拒绝下达。法律拟制中的这项练习的目的是表明法院可以以另一种方式决定 Centros。然后将支持 Centros 的选择与其他内部市场案例进行对比，得出真正的 Centros 和替代的 Centros 在某些方面都符合自由流动案例法的结论。有人认为，赛德对虐待的分析最有助于理解这种令人困惑的游戏状态。文章最后提出了进一步研究的建议：