43Nevertheless, it is also in accordance with the Court’s settled case-law that fundamental rights, such as respect for the rights of the defence, do not constitute unfettered prerogatives and may be restricted, provided that the restrictions in fact correspond to objectives of general interest pursued by the measure in question and that they do not involve, with regard to the objectives pursued, a disproportionate and intolerable interference which infringes upon the very substance of the rights guaranteed (the judgments in Alassini and Others, C‑317/08 to C‑320/08, EU:C:2010:146, paragraph 63; G. and R., EU:C:2013:533, paragraph 33; and Texdata Software, C‑418/11, EU:C:2013:588, paragraph 84).
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