THE FOREIGN RESIDENCE ALLOWANCE IS THEREFORE TO COMPENSATE FOR THOSE ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS AND TO RESTORE A MEASURE OF EQUALITY BETWEEN ALL THE OFFICIALS IN THE SAME PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR NATIONALITY .
11 THE APPLICANT COUNTERS THAT ARGUMENT BY CLAIMING THAT THE DISADVANTAGES CONNECTED WITH NATIONALITY AS SUCH ARE , AS FAR AS OFFICIALS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE CONCERNED , NON-EXISTENT OR INSIGNIFICANT , BEING LARGELY COMPENSATED FOR BY THE SYSTEM OF ALLOWANCES AND GRANTS ALREADY GUARANTEED BY THE STAFF REGULATIONS AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE EXPATRIATION ALLOWANCE , AND EVEN IF SUCH DISADVANTAGES WERE TO BE PRESENT TO A SMALL DEGREE THE APPLICANT MAINTAINS THAT THAT SITUATION DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE GRANT OF AN ADDITIONAL COMPENSATORY ALLOWANCE AND CONSIDERS THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF THE EXISTING ALLOWANCES TO COMPENSATE FOR THOSE DISADVANTAGES .
12 THE APPLICANT ' S ARGUMENTS MUST BE REJECTED . IT CANNOT BE DENIED THAT AN OFFICIAL WHO HAS NOT AND HAS NEVER HAD THE NATIONALITY OF THE STATE IN WHOSE TERRITORY HIS PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT IS SITUATED MAY BE SUBJECT , BY REASON OF HIS STATUS AS AN ALIEN , TO A NUMBER OF INCONVENIENCES BOTH IN LAW AND IN FACT , OF A CIVIC , FAMILY , EDUCATIONAL , CULTURAL AND POLITICAL NATURE , WHICH THE NATIONALS OF THE COUNTRY DO NOT EXPERIENCE . AS THE FOREIGN RESIDENCE ALLOWANCE IS INTENDED TO COMPENSATE FOR THE DISADVANTAGES WHICH OFFICIALS UNDERGO AS A RESULT OF THEIR STATUS AS ALIENS , THE COMMUNITY LEGISLATURE WAS ENTITLED , IN APPLYING ITS DISCRETIONARY JUDGMENT TO THAT SITUATION , TO RELY ON THE SINGLE CRITERION OF NATIONALITY , WHEREAS IN THE CASE OF THE EXPATRIATION ALLOWANCE , THE OBJECT OF WHICH IS ' ' TO COMPENSATE OFFICIALS FOR THE EXTRA EXPENSE AND INCONVENIENCE OF TAKING UP EMPLOYMENT WITH THE COMMUNITIES AND BEING THEREBY OBLIGED TO CHANGE THEIR RESIDENCE ' ' ( CASE 21/74 AIROLA , PARAGRAPH 8 OF THE DECISION OF 20 FEBRUARY 1975 , ( 1975 ) ECR 221 AT P . 228 ), THE COMMUNITY LEGISLATURE ADOPTED AS THE PRINCIPLE CRITERION THAT OF THE OFFICIAL ' S USUAL PLACE OF RESIDENCE , CONSIDERING NATIONALITY AS OF ONLY SECONDARY IMPORTANCE .
13 WHILST IT IS TRUE THAT OFFICIALS MAY EXPERIENCE THE INCONVENIENCES OF LIVING ABROAD TO VARYING DEGREES , THE CRITERION OF NATIONALITY HAS THE MERIT OF BEING : UNIFORM , APPLYING IN AN IDENTICAL MANNER TO ALL OFFICIALS IRRESPECTIVE OF THE PLACE IN WHICH THEY WORK , OBJECTIVE IN NATURE AND IN ITS UNIVERSALITY HAVING REGARD TO THE AVERAGE EFFECT OF THE INCONVENIENCES ARISING FROM RESIDENCE ABROAD ON THE PERSONAL SITUATION OF THOSE CONCERNED , AND DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE PURPOSE OF THE RULES , NAMELY TO COMPENSATE FOR THE DIFFICULTIES AND DISADVANTAGES ARISING FROM THE STATUS OF AN ALIEN IN THE HOST COUNTRY .
14 ALTHOUGH IN BORDER-LINE CASES FORTUITOUS PROBLEMS MUST ARISE FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF ANY GENERAL AND ABSTRACT SYSTEM OF RULES , THERE ARE NO GROUNDS FOR