59Thus, according to the Court’s settled case-law, in the absence of EU rules on the matter, it is for the national legal order of each Member State to establish them in accordance with the principle of procedural autonomy, on condition, however, that those rules are not less favourable than those governing similar domestic situations (principle of equivalence) and that they do not make it excessively difficult or impossible in practice to exercise the rights conferred by EU law (principle of effectiveness) (see, to that effect, judgments of 17 March 2016, Bensada Benallal, C‑161/15, EU:C:2016:175, paragraph 24, and of 13 December 2017, El Hassani, C‑403/16, EU:C:2017:960, paragraph 26).
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