56It is true that fundamental rights which form an integral part of the general principles of Community law include the general principle of nondiscrimination. That principle is therefore binding on Member States where the national situation at issue in the main proceedings falls within the scope of Community law (see, to that effect, Case C-442/00 Rodríguez Caballero [2002] ECR I-11915, paragraphs 30 and 32, and Case C-112/00 Schmidberger [2003] ECR I-5659, paragraph 75, and the case-law cited). However, it does not follow from this that the scope of Directive 2000/78 should be extended by analogy beyond the discrimination based on the grounds listed exhaustively in Article 1 thereof.
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