CONCURRING OPINION OF JUDGE STEINER

As regards the complaint under Article 14 of the Convention read in conjunction with Article 9, the present judgment follows closely the reasoning adopted by the Court in the case of Religionsgemeinschaft der Zeugen Jehovas and Others v. Austria (no. 40825/98, 31 July 2008) . In that case I voted against finding a violation of Article 9 read alone and in conjunction with Article 14 , and, for the reasons explained in my dissenting opinion attached to that judgment, I might have arrived at the same conclusions in the present case. However, for the sake of the uniformity and coherence of our case-law, I have voted in favour of finding a violation of Article 14 read in conjunction with Article 9 in the present case.