39However, it must be held that the Complaints Board falls within the remit, not of ‘a Member State’ but of the European Schools, which constitute, as the first and second recitals of the European Schools’ Convention state a ‘sui generis’ system, which achieves, by means of an international agreement, a form of cooperation between the Member States and between those States and the European Union, for the education together of children of the staff of the European Communities in order to ensure the proper functioning of the European institutions.
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