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Article 2 of Law No 75/2014 is worded as follows: ‘1 — Gross monthly income greater than EUR 1500 of persons referred to in paragraph 9, whether already employed on that date or taking up their functions thereafter, in any capacity, shall be reduced as follows: (a) by 3.5% of the total amount of remuneration greater than EUR 1500 and less than EUR 2000; (b) by 3.5% of the amount of EUR 2000 plus 16% of the amount of the total remuneration greater than EUR 2000, coming to an overall reduction of between 3.5% and 10% in respect of remuneration equal to or greater than EUR 2000 and up to EUR 4165; (c) by 10% of the total amount of remuneration greater than EUR 4165. … 9 — This Law shall apply to the following office-holders and other employees: (a) the President of the Republic; (b) the President of the Assembleia da República [National Assembly]; (c) the Prime Minister; (d) Deputies of the Assembleia da República; (e) Members of the Government; (f) Judges of the Tribunal Constitucional [Constitutional Court], Judges of the Tribunal de Contas [Court of Auditors], the Attorney General of the Republic, judges and public prosecutors, judges of administrative and tax tribunals and district judges; (g) Representatives of the Republic for the Autonomous Regions; (h) Deputies of the assembleias legislativas das regiões autónomas [Parliaments of the Autonomous Regions]; (i) Members of the Regional Governments; (j) locally elected persons; (k) members of other bodies provided for in the Constitution not referred to in the preceding paragraphs and members of bodies in charge of independent administrative bodies, namely those working for the Assembleia da República; (l) members and employees of cabinets, management bodies and support offices, office-holders and bodies referred to in the preceding paragraphs, the President and Vice-President of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, the President and Vice-President of the Supreme Council of Administrative and Tax Tribunals, the President of the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça [Supreme Court], the President and Judges of the Tribunal Constitucional [Constitutional Court], the President of the Supremo Tribunal Administrativo [Supreme Administrative Court], the President of the Tribunal de Contas [Court of Auditors], the Provedor de Justiça [Ombudsman] and the Attorney General of the Republic; (m) soldiers of the armed forces and the National Republican Guard (GNR), including military judges and military experts in the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and of other armed forces; (n) managerial staff of the Presidency of the Republic and the Assembleia da República and other supporting staff of the constitutional bodies, other departments and bodies of the central, regional and local State administration and staff performing other duties which are treated as equivalent for the purposes of remuneration; (o) public administrators or those treated as equivalent thereto, members of executive, deliberative, consultative or supervisory bodies or any other statutory body subject to general or special rules, legal persons governed by public law whose independence arises from their involvement in the regulation, supervision or control of public undertakings whose capital is wholly or mainly in public ownership, public undertakings the operation of which is entrusted to a third undertaking and entities forming part of the regional and municipal business sector, public foundations and any other public entity; (p) employees performing public duties with the Presidency of the Republic, the Assembleia da República or in other constitutional bodies, and those performing public duties irrespective of the details of the employment relationship governed by public law, including employees undergoing retraining and on special leave; (q) employees of public institutions subject to a special regime and legal persons governed by public law which are independent as a result of their involvement in regulatory, supervisory or monitoring activities, including employees of independent regulatory entities; (r) employees of public undertakings whose capital is wholly or mainly in public ownership, public undertakings and entities forming part of the regional and municipal business sector; (s) employees and management of public foundations governed by public law and public foundations governed by private law and public establishments not covered by the preceding paragraphs; (t) reserve staff, staff who have taken early retirement or are on stand-by, who are not in service, who receive benefits indexed to the salaries of active staff. … 15 — The rules laid down in this article shall be mandatory and take precedence over all other provisions, whether special or exceptional, or otherwise, and over collective regulatory agreements and contracts of employment, and may not be derogated from or amended by any of the above.’