66Suffice it to point out, in that regard, that the Court has already held that the Parliament did not provide any assurance which could have given rise, on the part of Members belonging to the additional pension scheme, to a legitimate expectation that the conditions of that scheme were not going to be amended in the future (Purvis v Parliament, paragraph 29 above, paragraph 70), that the estimates provided by the ASBL on 27 April 2001 did not come from the Parliament (Purvis v Parliament, paragraph 29 above, paragraph 71) and that the commitment, made by the Bureau, in the name of the Parliament, at its meeting on 1 April 2009, to guarantee the right of members of the scheme to the additional pension which could be retained after exhaustion of the pension fund seeks merely to guarantee, in the likely event that the fund would be exhausted before payment of all the pension rights accumulated by the members, the acquired pension rights of Members (Purvis v Parliament, paragraph 29 above, paragraph 73). As has, however, been stated in paragraphs 47, 49 and 50 above, the applicants had not acquired pension rights as at 27 May 2009.
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