28It must be held that, where the legislature and the administrative authority use two different terms in the same text having general application, reasons of consistency and legal certainty preclude those terms being given the same scope. The same applies a fortiori where those terms have different meanings in ordinary usage. That is precisely the case of the adjectives ‘appropriate’ and ‘equivalent’. The usual meaning of the adjective ‘appropriate’ is ‘suited to a particular use’, which is supported by the second sentence of Article 1(3)(c)(ii) of Annex I to the 2011 GIP. The adjective ‘equivalent’, however, means ‘of the same value’ and therefore has a more restricted meaning.
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