sentences:  The EU member states implemented Directive 93/98/EEC and Directive 2006/116/EC in their national law; however, it is not guaranteed that such national implementations are either "comprehensive or in conformity" with the Directives.Even before article 7 of directive 93/98/EC explicitly prohibited the application of the rule of the shorter term amongst EU countries, the comparison of terms within the EU was not allowed.The Treaty instituting the European Community, which in its original version became effective in 1958, defined in article 7, paragraph 1, that within the union, any discrimination on grounds of nationality was prohibited.