Judgment_paragraph 70 · EB v Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri and Others (C-326/19)

70Finally, the principle of equivalence, which was invoked on several occasions by the referring court in its decision and by EB himself, refers to the need to ensure judicial protection of rights conferred by the EU legal order which is not less favourable than that provided for comparable rights which have their origin in national law alone. Therefore, that principle is not applicable in the present case, since that need only concerns provisions which have as their object rights conferred by the legal order of the European Union (see, to that effect, judgment of 7 March 2018, Santoro, C‑494/16, EU:C:2018:166, paragraphs 39 and 40).