Judgment_paragraph 312 · Republic of Lithuania and Others v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (C-541/20)

312In that regard, Article 18 TFEU, which lays down a general principle prohibiting all discrimination on grounds of nationality, prohibits not only direct discrimination on grounds of nationality but also all indirect forms of discrimination which, by the application of other criteria of differentiation, lead in fact to the same result (see, to that effect, judgment of 4 October 2012, Commission v Austria, C‑75/11, EU:C:2012:605, paragraph 49 and the case-law cited).