Judgment_paragraph 21 · Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and Others v Administración del Estado and Asociación Multisectorial de Empresas de la Electrónica, las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación, de las Telecomunicaciones y de los contenidos Digitales (AMETIC) (C-470/14)

21Furthermore, the Court has already held that, if Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29 is not to be devoid of all practical effect, that provision must be regarded as imposing an obligation to achieve a certain result upon the Member States which have implemented the private copying exception, in the sense that they must guarantee, within the framework of their competences, the actual recovery of the fair compensation intended to compensate the rightholders (see, to that effect, judgments of 16 June 2011 in Stichting de Thuiskopie, C‑462/09, EU:C:2011:397, paragraph 34, and 11 July 2013 in Amazon.com International Sales and Others, C‑521/11, EU:C:2013:515, paragraph 57).