42In the light of those considerations, the answer to the first part of the question is that the primary law of the European Union and Article 9 of the Directive must be interpreted as not precluding a national procedural rule under which a victim of discrimination in recruitment on grounds of age must make a claim against the perpetrator of that discrimination within two months in order to obtain compensation for pecuniary or non-pecuniary damage, provided:— firstly, that that time-limit is not less favourable than that applicable to similar domestic actions in employment law,— secondly, that the fixing of the point from which that time-limit starts to run does not render practically impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of rights conferred by the Directive.It is for the national court to ascertain whether those two conditions are met.