28As the Court held in Case 43/75 Defrenne [1976] ECR 455, paragraph 12, that principle, which is a particular expression of the general principle of equality which prohibits comparable situations from being treated differently unless the difference is objectively justified, forms part of the foundations of the Community (see also Case C-381/99 Brunnhofer [2001] ECR I-4961, paragraph 28, and Lawrence and Others, paragraph 12).
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