35As the Court has consistently held, the purpose of the expatriation allowance is to compensate officials for the extra expense and inconvenience of taking up employment with the Communities if they have been thereby obliged to change their residence and move to the country of employment and to integrate themselves in a new environment. Furthermore, the concept of expatriation also depends on the personal position of an official, that is to say, on the extent to which he is integrated in his new environment, which is demonstrated for example, by habitual residence or by the main occupation pursued (see Case 201/88 Atala-Palmerini v Commission [1989] ECR 3109, paragraph 9, and Case C-452/93 P Magdalena Fernández v Commission [1994] ECR I-4295, paragraph 20).
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