Member States shall ensure that persons affected or likely to be affected by the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 to 9 of this Directive and persons having sufficient interest or maintaining the impairment of a right as well as non-governmental organisations that are involved in the fight against corruption and meet requirements under national law, have appropriate procedural rights in proceedings concerning those offences, where such procedural rights for the public concerned exist in the Member State in proceedings concerning other criminal offences, for instance as a civil party.
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