87There is no need to consider the argument of the Council that the contested decision cannot be discriminatory since it stems directly from the Act of Accession, since it is undisputed in the present case that the agricultural situation in the new Member States was radically different from that in the old Member States, which justified a gradual application of Community rules, in particular those rules relating to direct support schemes, in order not to disrupt the necessary on-going restructuring in the agricultural sector of the new Member States.
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