86The legislature’s wide discretion to make the amendments to the Staff Regulations needed on the conditions set out in paragraphs 82 and 83 above and in particular to alter the structure of the grades of officials cannot authorise it to make amendments which, among other things, are unconnected with that need or which do not take into account the competences which those grades are supposed to reflect. However, the legislature cannot, on the other hand, be bound by a requirement to maintain strictly the relationship which had hitherto existed between those grades before the amendment of the Staff Regulations.
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