33As regards the first ground of appeal, as the Advocate General observed in paragraphs 36 to 38 of his Opinion, it matters little whether the principle set out in Article 9(5) of the basic regulation is described as the ‘principle of equal treatment’ or the ‘principle of nondiscrimination’. They are simply two labels for a single general principle of Community law, which prohibits both treating similar situations differently and treating different situations in the same way unless there are objective reasons for such treatment (see, inter alia, Case C-442/00 Rodriguez Caballero [2002] ECR I-11915, paragraph 32 and the case-law cited). It is clear from paragraphs 50, 51 and 57 of the judgment under appeal that the Court of First Instance examined the treatment given to imports of LAECs from Japan, the United States and Thailand in the light of that principle, as set out, in particular, in Article 9 (5). Accordingly, Chemi-Con cannot claim that, in paragraph 48 of the judgment under appeal, the Court of First Instance failed to have regard to the principle whose infringement Chemi-Con was pleading before it.
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