Humbert sido enviado, entre Março de 1979, quando foi contratado na qualidade de "deputy project manager", e Dezembro de 1979, quando foi despedido, para a Líbia, depois para o Zaire e para o Emirado Árabe de Abu-Dhabi.
On the other hand, Six Constructions Ltd contested the jurisdiction of the French courts on the ground that the contract of employment was performed not in France but in several countries outside the territory of the Community, since between March 1979, when he was taken on as a deputy project manager and December 1979, when he was dismissed, Mr Humbert had been sent to Libya, Zaïre and Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates .EurLex-2 EurLex-2