34However, the contract at issue was concluded with a Community body, entrusted with public interest responsibilities and authorised to lay down, by regulation, provisions applicable to its staff. It follows that the consent of the parties to such a contract is necessarily circumscribed by all manner of obligations deriving from those particular responsibilities and incumbent upon both the management bodies of the ECB and its staff. It cannot be disputed that the Conditions of Employment are intended to meet those obligations and enable the ECB, in accordance with the third recital of the Conditions of Employment, to secure ‘the service of staff of the highest standard of independence, ability, efficiency and integrity ...’.
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