82The institutions and bodies of the EU are also free to organise their administrative units taking account of a whole range of factors, such as the nature and scope of the tasks which are assigned to them and the budgetary possibilities (Bellardi-Ricci and Others v Commission, 178/80, EU:C:1981:310, paragraph 19; Scheuer v Commission, T‑108/89, EU:T:1990:45, paragraph 41; Sebastiani v Parliament, T‑163/89, EU:T:1991:49, paragraph 33; and Lacruz Bassols v Court of Justice, T‑109/92, EU:T:1994:16, paragraph 88). That freedom includes the power to abolish posts and change assigned tasks, in the interests of better organisation of work or in order to meet budgetary requirements for the abolition of posts which are imposed by the political bodies of the EU. It also includes the power to reassign tasks previously carried out by the holder of the abolished post, although the abolition of the post is not necessarily subject to the condition that all of the assigned tasks can be carried out by a smaller number of people than before the reorganisation. Moreover, the abolition of a post does not necessarily presuppose that the tasks associated with it have ceased to be relevant (Cesaratto v Parliament, EU:T:1997:115, paragraphs 49 to 51).
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