58In that regard, it is apparent from the Court’s settled case-law that, in the absence of EU rules, the Member States are responsible for designating the courts having jurisdiction and for determining the rules of procedure governing actions for safeguarding rights which individuals derive from European Union law. However, those rules must not be such as to render virtually impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of rights conferred by EU law (judgments of 29 April 2004, Orfanopoulos and Oliveri, C‑482/01 and C‑493/01, EU:C:2004:262, paragraph 80 and of 13 March 2014, Global Trans Lodzhistik, C‑29/13 and C‑30/13, EU:C:2014:140, paragraph 33).
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