29According to settled case-law, compliance with the principle of equivalence implies that Member States are not to provide less favourable procedural rules for claims for reimbursement of a tax based on an infringement of EU law than the rules applicable to similar actions for infringement of domestic law, given their purpose, their cause of action and their essential characteristics. It is solely for the national court, which has direct knowledge of the procedural rules intended to ensure that the rights derived by individuals from EU law are safeguarded under domestic law, to verify that those rules comply with the principle of equivalence. However, the Court may, for the purposes of the assessment which the national court will carry out, provide certain information to it relating to the interpretation of EU law (see judgments of 30 June 2016, Câmpean, C‑200/14, EU:C:2016:494, paragraphs 45 and 46; of 31 May 2018, Sziber, C‑483/16, EU:C:2018:367, paragraphs 35, 41 and 42, and of 9 July 2020, Raiffeisen Bank and BRD Groupe Société Générale, C‑698/18 and C‑699/18, EU:C:2020:537, paragraphs 76 and 77).
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