46In that regard, the Court has previously accepted that some differences of treatment between career civil servants recruited following an open competition and those recruited having acquired professional experience on the basis of fixed-term contracts may, in principle, be justified by differences in the qualifications required and the nature of the duties undertaken (judgment of 18 October 2012, Valenza and Others, C‑302/11 to C‑305/11, EU:C:2012:646, paragraph 60).
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