14Edis submits that this question should be answered in the affirmative. The Governments which have submitted observations and the Commission, in its written observations, consider on the other hand that the application of a time-limit does not mean that the effects of a judgment delivered by the Court are limited as regards the past. Such a time-limit does not affect the existence or the substance of the rights conferred by the Community legal order, only the exercise of those rights. Moreover, it is clear from settled case-law of the Court of Justice that, in the absence of Community legislation governing a matter, it is for each Member State to lay down detailed procedural rules governing legal actions for safeguarding rights which individuals derive from Community law (Case 33/76 Rewe v Landwirtschaftskammer Saarland [1976] ECR 1989, Case 45/76 Comet v Produktschap voor Siergewassen [1976] ECR 2043 and, more recently, Case C-212/94 FMC and Others v Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce and Another [1996] ECR I-389).
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