51The Wirtschaftskammer Österreich adds that the main reason why Groups A and B cannot be compared is connected with the fact that persons performing military service suffer unequal treatment based directly on their sex. That inequality consists in the exclusion of those persons, for the duration of military or civilian service, not only from access to employment but also from occupational training and promotion, which places them at a disadvantage compared with women. The compatibility with Community law of advantages given to men to compensate for that unequal treatment was accepted in Case C-79/99 Schnorbus [2000] ECR I-10997 and Case C-186/01 Dory [2003] ECR I-2479.
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