37In addition, as the Advocate General observed in points 50 and 51 of his Opinion, in the decentralised system for the application of the rules of EU competition law, in which national competition authorities directly apply those rules, the determination of the limitation rules for the imposition of penalties by those authorities is a matter for Member States, subject to compliance with the principles of equivalence and effectiveness. In that context, those authorities are subject to the national rules on limitation, with the result that it is not necessary, in principle, to apply to them the limitation rules laid down at EU level and applicable to the Commission.
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