These concerns were inter alia related to the fact that the Government had taken permanent measures, which went beyond a temporary state of emergency: civil servants were dismissed, not merely suspended, and they were prohibited from public service for the rest of their life; tens of thousands of public servants had been dismissed – and prohibited from public service – collectively on the basis of the lists appended to the emergency decree laws which were not individualised, i.e. they did not refer to verifiable evidence related to each individual and described in the decisions; basic rights of administrative due process of the public servants dismissed by the decree laws or on their basis had not been respected. Finally, doubts had been expressed about the access to justice for those public servants who had been dismissed directly by the decree laws.