22The defendant in the main proceedings, the Luxembourg, Spanish, Austrian and United Kingdom Governments and the Council, on the other hand, take the view that there is no incompatibility. The Court has already held that Articles 48 and 51 of the Treaty do not prevent the legislature from imposing restrictions on the right to export family benefits, provided that those restrictions, concerning benefits linked to a specific economic and social context, do not give rise to discrimination on the ground of nationality and do not add to the already existing disparities between the legislative provisions of the Member States. It has accepted, in particular, that a residence condition imposed for payment of allowances comparable, from the point of view of the abovementioned conditions, to the Luxembourg allowances under examination was compatible with the Treaty (see Case 313/86 Lenoir [1988] ECR 5391, Case C-20/96 Snares [1997] ECR I-6057 and Case C-297/96 Partridge [1998] ECR I-3467).
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