52In order to reply to the question raised, it should be noted that, according to the general principles on which the Community is based and which govern the relations between it and the Member States, it is for the Member States, under Article 10 EC, to ensure that Community rules are implemented within their territories. In so far as Community law, including its general principles, does not include common rules to that effect then, when the national authorities implement Community rules, they are to act in accordance with the procedural and substantive rules of their own national law (see, in particular, Case C-285/93 Dominikanerinnen-Kloster Altenhohenau [1995] ECR I-4069, paragraph 26, and Case C-495/00 Azienda Agricola Giorgio, Giovanni e Luciano Visentin and Others [2004] ECR I-2993, paragraph 39).
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