45In particular, the Court has held that, by refusing to adopt the measures necessary for the transfer to the Community pension scheme of sums due to be repaid in respect of or the actuarial equivalent of retirement pension rights acquired under the national pension scheme, as provided for by Article 11(2) of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations, a Member State might also impede the recruitment by the Community of national officials with a certain length of service, since movement from the national administration to that of the Community would entail the loss of pension rights to which they would be entitled if they had not accepted employment with the Community (Commission v Belgium, paragraph 19).
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