43For the purpose of those checks, the national court will be able to take as a basis the detailed rules governing summoning to trial that are laid down by national law. It should be recalled, in that regard, that Directive 2016/343 is concerned solely with laying down common minimum rules and therefore does not carry out exhaustive harmonisation of criminal procedure (see, to that effect, inter alia, judgments of 28 November 2019, Spetsializirana prokuratura, C‑653/19 PPU, EU:C:2019:1024, paragraph 28, and of 13 February 2020, Spetsializirana prokuratura (Hearing in the absence of the accused person), C‑688/18, EU:C:2020:94, paragraph 30). That said, detailed rules of that kind laid down by national law cannot undermine that directive’s aim of safeguarding the fairness of the proceedings and thus of enabling the person concerned to be present at the trial, which entails the ability to prepare his or her defence (see, by analogy, judgment of 23 November 2021, IS (Illegality of the order for reference), C‑564/19, EU:C:2021:949, paragraph 128).
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