EU—Agriculture

It was settled EU case law that Art 34(2) EC, which prohibited all discrimination under the common agricultural policy, was merely a specific expression of the general principle of equal treatment, which required that comparable situations should not be treated differently and different situations not treated alike unless such treatment was objectively justified. Further, member states might adopt provisions in a situation governed by EU law where that law expressly conferred on them decision-making powers. The prohibition on discrimination was not concerned with any disparities in treatment which might result, between the member states, from divergences existing between the legislation of the various member states, so long as that legislation affected equally all persons subject to it.