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as it imposes burdens on individuals, Community law is also intended to give rise to rights which become part of their legal patrimony. Those rights arise not only where they are expressly granted by the Treaty but also by virtue of obligations which the Treaty imposes in a clearly defined manner both on individuals and on the Member States and the
Community institutions (see the judgments in Case 26/62
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for CDN Elettronica SnC, was owed 6 million Lira, and Mrs
Bonifaci and 33 of her colleagues were owed 253 million Lira together after their company, Gaia Confezioni Srl, had gone bankrupt. The Directive was meant to be implemented by 1983, but five years later they had been paid nothing, as the
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Community rules is subject to prior action on the part of the State and where, consequently, in the absence of such action, individuals cannot enforce before
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