18In that connection, the Court of First Instance held in paragraph 54 of the judgment under appeal:‘The ECB, like any other institution or undertaking, has management powers in the organisation of its services and in the management of its staff. As a Community institution it even enjoys wide discretion in the organisation of its services and in the assignment of its staff to perform its public service responsibilities (see, by analogy, the judgments of the Court of Justice in Case 69/83 Lux v Court of Auditors [1984] ECR 2447, paragraph 17, and Case C-294/95 P Ojha v Commission [1996] ECR I-5863, paragraph 40; and the judgments of the Court of First Instance in Case T-33/90 Von Bonkewitz-Lindner v Parliament [1991] ECR II-1251, paragraph 88, and Case T-176/97 Hick v ESC [1998] ECRSC I-A-281 and II-845, paragraph 36). It may therefore over time develop its employment relationships with its staff in the best interests of the service in order to arrive at an effective organisation of work and a consistent allocation of the various duties among members of the staff and to adapt to varying needs. A member of staff recruited to a post for an indefinite period which might last until he reached the age of 65 cannot reasonably expect that every aspect of internal organisation will remain unchanged for his entire career or that he will retain throughout his career the responsibilities allocated to him at the time of his appointment.’
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