193In that context, it is primarily for the national legislature to take the necessary measures. It falls to it, where required, to amend its legislation and to ensure that the procedural rules applicable to the prosecution of, and the imposition of penalties for, offences of fraud affecting the financial interests of the European Union and offences of corruption in general are not designed in such a way that there arises, for reasons inherent in those rules, a systemic risk that acts that may be categorised as such offences may go unpunished, and also to ensure that the fundamental rights of accused persons are protected (see, to that effect, judgments of 5 June 2018, Kolev and Others, C‑612/15, EU:C:2018:392, paragraph 65, and of 17 January 2019, Dzivev and Others, C‑310/16, EU:C:2019:30, paragraph 31).
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