34As to those principles, it is settled case-law that such time-limits prescribed in national law may not be less favourable than those governing similar domestic applications (principle of equivalence) and may not be framed in such a way as to render impossible in practice the exercise of rights conferred by Community law (principle of effectiveness) (see, in particular, Case 33/76 Rewe [1976] ECR 1989, paragraph 5, and Case C-159/00 Sapod Audio [2002] ECR I-5031, paragraph 52).
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