§5.3.2 Other obligations based on the principle of equivalence

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The principle of equivalence applies likewise to other procedural rules. For instance, the Court (400) has ruled that less advantageous rules for the intervention of consumer associations in relation to an objection to a payment order based on the unfairness of contract terms as compared to the rules applying to disputes concerning exclusively national law would infringe the equivalence principle. The same must apply to any time-limits, rights to be heard, conditions for interim measures, rights to object or appeal and indeed all other procedural arrangements.

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