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In those circumstances, the Landgericht München I (Regional Court, Munich I, Germany) decided to stay the proceedings and to refer the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling: ‘1. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31, read in conjunction with Article 2(a) of that directive and Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34, to be interpreted as meaning that the expression “normally provided for remuneration” means that the national court must establish: a. whether the person specifically concerned, who claims the status of service provider, normally provides that specific service for remuneration, b. whether there are on the market any providers at all who provide that service or similar services for remuneration, or c. whether the majority of these or similar services are provided for remuneration? 2. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31 to be interpreted as meaning that the expression “provision of access to a communication network” means that the only criterion for provision in conformity with the directive is that access to a communication network (for example, the internet) should be successfully provided? 3. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31, read in conjunction with Article 2(b) of that directive, to be interpreted as meaning that, for the purposes of “anbieten” (“provision”) within the meaning of Article 2(b) [of that directive], it is sufficient for the Information Society service to be made available, that being, in this case, the making available of an open [wireless local area network] WLAN, or is “advertising”, for example, also necessary? 4. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31 to be interpreted as meaning that the expression “not liable for the information transmitted” precludes as a matter of principle, or in any event in relation to a first established copyright infringement, any claims for injunctive relief, damages or the payment of the costs of giving formal notice or court costs which a person affected by a copyright infringement might make against the access provider? 5. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31, read in conjunction with Article 12(3) of that directive, to be interpreted as meaning that the Member States may not permit a national court, in substantive proceedings, to make an order requiring an access provider to refrain in future from enabling third parties to make a particular copyright-protected work available for electronic retrieval from an online exchange platform via a specific internet connection? 6. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31 to be interpreted as meaning that, in circumstances such as those in the main proceedings, the rule contained in Article 14(1)(b) of Directive 2000/31 is to be applied mutatis mutandis to an application for a prohibitory injunction? 7. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31, read in conjunction with Article 2(b) of that directive to be interpreted as meaning that the requirements applicable to a service provider are limited to the condition that the service provider be any natural or legal person providing an Information Society service? 8. If the seventh question is answered in the negative, what additional requirements must be imposed on a service provider for the purposes of interpreting Article 2(b) of Directive 2000/31? 9. Is the first half-sentence of Article 12(1) of Directive 2000/31, taking into account the existing protection of intellectual property as a fundamental right forming part of the right to property (Article 17(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) and the provisions of Directives 2001/29 and 2004/48, and taking into account the freedom of information and the fundamental right under EU law of the freedom to conduct a business (Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union), to be interpreted as not precluding a national court from deciding, in … proceedings in which an access provider is ordered, on pain of payment of a fine, to refrain in the future from enabling third parties to make a particular copyright-protected work or parts thereof available for electronic retrieval from an online (peer-to-peer) exchange platform via a specific internet connection, that it may be left to the access provider to determine what specific technical measures to take in order to comply with that order? [10.] Does this also apply where the access provider is in fact able to comply with the court prohibition only by terminating or password-protecting the internet connection or examining all communications passing through it in order to ascertain whether the particular copyright-protected work is unlawfully transmitted again, and this fact is apparent from the outset rather than coming to light only in the course of enforcement or penalty proceedings?’