83It also follows from the case-law of the Court (see Case C-330/91 The Queen v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte Commerzbank [1993] ECR I-4017, paragraph 14, and Case C-254/97 Baxter and Others, cited above, paragraph 10) that the rules regarding equal treatment prohibit not only overt discrimination by reason of nationality or, in the case of a company, its registered office, but all covert forms of discrimination which, by the application of other criteria of differentiation, lead in fact to the same result.
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