28It is apparent from the case-law that Article 12 EC applies independently only to situations governed by Community law for which the Treaty lays down no specific rules of non-discrimination (see, inter alia, Joined Cases C-397/98 and C-410/98 Metallgesellscahft and Others [2001] ECR I-1727, paragraph 38, and Case C-422/01 Skandia and Ramstedt [2003] ECR I-6817, paragraph 61).
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