20However, a difference in treatment stemming from a Member State’s legislation to the detriment of companies exercising their freedom of establishment does not constitute an obstacle to that freedom if it relates to situations which are not objectively comparable or is justified by an overriding reason in the public interest and proportionate to that objective (see, to that effect, judgments of 12 December 2006, Test Claimants in the FII Group Litigation, C‑446/04, EU:C:2006:774, paragraph 167, and 25 February 2010, X Holding, C‑337/08, EU:C:2010:89, paragraph 20).
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