130In that connection, the European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly stated that, although the principle of the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary has assumed growing importance in its case-law, neither Article 6 nor any other provision of the ECHR requires States to adopt a particular constitutional model governing in one way or another the relationship and interaction between the various branches of the State, nor requires those States to comply with any theoretical constitutional concepts regarding the permissible limits of such interaction. The question is always whether, in a given case, the requirements of the ECHR have been met (see, inter alia, ECtHR, 6 May 2003, Kleyn and Others v. Netherlands, CE:ECHR:2003:0506JUD003934398, § 193 and the case-law cited; 9 November 2006, Sacilor Lormines v. France, CE:ECHR:2006:1109JUD006541101, § 59; and 18 October 2018, Thiam v. France, CE:ECHR:2018:1018JUD008001812, § 62 and the case-law cited).
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