55As regards judicial proceedings, the Court has already held that, having regard to the adversarial principle that forms part of the rights of the defence, which are referred to in Article 47 of the Charter, the parties to a case must have the right to examine all the documents or observations submitted to the court for the purpose of influencing its decision, and to comment on them (Case C-450/06 Varec [2008] ECR I-581, paragraph 45; Case C-89/08 P Commission v Ireland and Others [2009] ECR I-11245, paragraph 52; and Case C-472/11 Banif Plus Bank [2013] ECR, paragraph 30; see also, as regards Article 6(1) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950, the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Ruiz-Mateos v. Spain, 23 June 1993, § 63, Series A no. 262).
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