71Thus, the condition laid down in the first paragraph of Article 17 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations to determine the personal scope of that provision, namely the fact of being the ‘spouse’ of the deceased official, implies that the recipient of the survivor’s pension must have been connected to the deceased official in a civil relationship which has given rise to a set of rights and obligations between them.
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