70That aim is to allow only Member States the opportunity of restricting admission of foreign nationals to certain positions in the public service (Sotgiu, paragraph 4), which presume on the part of those occupying them the existence of a special relationship of allegiance to the State and reciprocity of rights and duties which form the foundation of the bond of nationality (see Commission v Belgium, paragraph 10). Article 39(4) EC cannot, conversely, have the effect of disentitling a worker, once admitted into the public service of a Member State, to the application of the provisions contained in Article 39(1) to (3) EC (see, to that effect, Sotgiu, paragraph 4).
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