36That said, in accordance with the Court’s settled case-law, it should be made clear that although, in the absence of EU rules on the matter, it is for the national legal order of each Member State to establish them, in accordance with the principle of procedural autonomy, that applies only on condition that those procedural rules are not less favourable than those governing similar domestic situations (principle of equivalence) and that they do not make it impossible in practice or excessively difficult to exercise the rights conferred by EU law (principle of effectiveness) (see, to that effect, judgment of 21 December 2021, Randstad Italia, C‑497/20, EU:C:2021:1037, paragraph 58 and the case-law cited).
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