72In that regard, it is apparent from recital 14 of Directive 2006/54 that the EU legislature sought to take formal notice of the fact that, in accordance with the Court’s case-law recalled in paragraph 60 of the present judgment, a pension scheme for public servants falls within the scope of the principle of equal pay set out in Article 157 TFEU if the benefits payable under the scheme are paid to the worker by reason of his/her employment relationship with the public employer, that condition being satisfied if the pension scheme concerns a particular category of workers and its benefits are directly related to the period of service and calculated by reference to the public servant’s final salary.
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