Judgment_paragraph 42 · H. A. v État belge (C-194/19)

42In accordance with 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 procedural rules for actions intended to safeguard the rights of individuals, 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 18 June 2002, HI, C‑92/00, EU:C:2002:379, paragraph 67; of 13 December 2017, El Hassani, C‑403/16, EU:C:2017:960, paragraph 26; and of 9 September 2020, Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides (Rejection of a subsequent application – time limit for bringing proceedings) (C‑651/19, EU:C:2020:681, paragraph 34)).

H. A. v État belge (C-194/19)

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