55Such a burden of proof would be inconsistent with the detailed rules for the assessment of applications for international protection, as set out in Article 4 of Directive 2011/95. First, as was recalled in paragraph 52 of the present judgment, Article 4(1) of that directive allows only Member States to place the onus on the applicant ‘to submit as soon as possible all the elements needed to substantiate the application for international protection’ and places on Member States the onus of assessing the relevant elements of the application. Second, as the Advocate General noted in point 70 of her Opinion, Article 4(5) of Directive 2011/95 acknowledges that an applicant may not always be able to substantiate his or her claim with documentary or other evidence and lists the cumulative conditions under which such evidence is not required. In that regard, the reasons for the refusal to perform military service and, consequently, the prosecution to which it exposes the conscript constitute subjective elements of the application in respect of which it may be particularly difficult to adduce direct evidence.
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