Key legal question
Whether the administrative law appeal against the SECO decision ordering transmission of bank information was admissible.
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible because the entire administrative assistance procedure in favor of the IIC fell under the exclusion of Art. 100(1)(a) OJ as a foreign-relations measure.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that where the federal government itself chose to cooperate rapidly and fully with a UN investigation under Art. 184(3) Cst. and the UN Charter, the ensuing assistance measures and incidental decisions were part of an essentially political foreign-policy act excluded from administrative-law review.