51A breach of the principle of equal treatment as a result of different treatment thus presupposes that the situations concerned are comparable, having regard to all the elements which characterise them (see, inter alia, Arcelor Atlantique et Lorraine and Others, paragraph 25). In their observations, the Polish Government and the Commission submitted that that condition was not satisfied in the present case.
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