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discussed under the heading immunity of international organizations 350wasinfactdecidedunderalackofadjudicativepowerrationale.InHetzelv. Eurocontrol, 351 a German appellate administrative court held that as aresult ofthe possibility of havinglegal recourse to the

ILOAdministrativeTribunalunderEurocontrolstaffrules,GermancourtslackedjurisdictionforEurocontrolemploymentdisputes.Itparticularlystressedtheneedfora single employment law and an equally exclusive jurisprudence formedby a single court as elements guaranteeing the proper functioning of theinternational organization. The Federal Constitutional Court rejected aconstitutional challenge to this decision. 352Hetzel v.

Eurocontrol is not the only case where a domestic court resortedto a lack of jurisdiction concept rather than to immunity from suit. Anumber of employment disputes concerning Eurocontrol were broughtbefore various domestic courts in different countries. The issue ofwhether domestic courts are competent to hear such cases was compli-cated by a peculiarity of Eurocontrols conventional framework whichdoes not provide for the organizations immunity from suit 353 but in-cludes a number of confusing provisions giving rise to potentially con-f l icting

conclusions.Eurocontrol, like most international organizations,

employed person-nel according to two different categories, unilaterally appointed off i -cials (fonctionnaires internationaux) and persons hired on the basis of con-tract. While employment relationships of the f i rst type were governed350Cf. the published legal opinions of Bleckmann and Seidl-Hohenveldern for these legalproceedings:

AlbertBleckmann,InternationaleBeamtenstreitigkeitenvornationalen

Gerichten,Materialien zum Recht der internationalen Organisationen und zur Immunita t, Rechtsgutachtenfu r die Union Syndicale, Section

Eurocontrol (Berlin, 1981); and Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern,DieImmunita t internationaler Organisationen in Dienstrechtsstreitfa llen,

Rechtsgutachten fu r Euro-control. Schriften zum Vo lkerrecht (Be...