33 be understood as a new labor relationship, which could be a new contract or a new appointment, provided that there are vacant budgeted posts in the entities or that such posts are opened up; that the employees comply with the requirements for these posts; that there is legal competence to hire, and that there is a legal norm authorizing appointments.” Based on the Special Committee’s recommendations, it considered that there had been 60 cases of irregular dismissals under the 1992 evaluation and selection procedure (supra para. 89(7) to 89(13)), with regard to the employees dismissed from the Congress of the Republic.61 89(36) On July 29, 2002, Congress issued Act No. 27803 concerning the implementation by the Multisectoral Commission of “the recommendations of the [Special] Committees created by Acts Nos. 27452 and 27586, responsible for reviewing the collective dismissals in the State enterprises undergoing processes to promote private investment and in entities of the public sector and local government.”62 89(37) The Peruvian Ministry of Labor has published lists of the former public sector employees dismissed irregularly based on the previous law with a total of 28,123 individuals, of whom 27,187 had opted for the benefits established in Act No. 27803. According to the State, “2,229 had reincorporated [the public sector], 6,981 were pending, and payments of financial compensation had been made to 16,681 former employees […] who were also dismissed from their respective jobs and had received financial compensation.”63 Concerning the alleged victims 89(38) The list of the 257 alleged victims appears in the Appendix to this judgment, which forms part thereof for these effects. Damage caused to the alleged victims and costs 89(39) The 257 dismissed employees have suffered damage as a direct result of the facts. 89(40) Jorge Pacheco Munayco, Manuel Abad Carranza Rodríguez, Henry William Camargo Matencio, Adolfo Fernández Saré, Máximo Jesús Atauje Montes and Javier Mujica Petit took measures before the Inter-American Commission. Moreover, the foregoing and Javier Mujica Petit and Francisco Ercilio Moura, as common intervenors for the representatives, intervened in the proceedings before the Inter-American Court, in representation of the majority of the alleged victims. 61 Cf. Final report of the Multisectoral Commission, Act No. 27586 of March 26, 2002 (file of useful evidence presented by the State, folios 4395, 4442 and 4447), and note of March 26, 2002, in which the President of the Multisectoral Commission forwarded its Final Report to the President of the Congress of the Republic (file of useful evidence presented by the State, folio 4391). 62 Cf. Act No. 27803 that “implements the recommendations arising from the [Special]Committees created by Acts Nos. 27452 and 27586, responsible for reviewing the collective dismissals carried out in the State enterprises subject to processes of promotion of private investment and in the entities of the public sector and local governments.” 63 Cf. “Final list of former employees to be registered in the National Register of Employees Dismissed irregularly,” published in the official gazette of October 2, 2004 (evidence file, appendix 3 to the communication presented to the Commission on December 14, 2004, folios 5215 to 5290), and final written arguments of the State (merits file, tome III, folios 893 and 894).