ORDERS the requisition, with immediate effect and for the duration of six months, except as may be necessary to extend such period, and without prejudice for the rights of the parties and of third parties, of the plant and relative equipment owned by Raytheon-Elsi of Palermo. With a subsequent decree, the indemnification to be paid to said company for the requisition will be established." The order was served on the company on 2 April 1968. 3 1. On 6 April 1968 the Mayor issued an order entrusting the management of the requisitioned plant to Mr. Aldo Profumo, the Managing Director of ELSI, for the purpose, inter alia, of "avoiding any damage to the equipment and machinery due to the abandoning of al1 activity, including maintenance". Mr. Profumo declined to accept this appointment, and on 16 April 1968 the Mayor wrote to Mr. Silvio Laurin, the senior director, appointing him temporarily to replace Mr. Profumo "in the same capacity, with the same powers, functions and limitations", and Mr. Laurin accepted this appointment. The company management requested another of its directors, Mr. Rico Merluzzo, to stay at the plant night and day "to preclude local authorities from somehow asserting that the plant had been 'abandoned' by ELSI". 32. On 9 April 1968 ELSI addressed a telegram to the Mayor of Palermo, with copies to other Government authorities, claiming (inter alia) that the requisition was illegal and expressing the company's intention to take al1 legal steps to have it revoked and to claim damages. On 12 April 1968 the company served on the Mayor a forma1 document dated 1 1 April 1968 inviting him to revoke the requisition order. The Mayor did not respond and the order was not revoked, and on 19 April1968 ELSI brought an administrative appeal against it to the Prefect of Palermo, who was empowered to hear appeals against decisions by local governmental officials. The decision on that appeal was not given until22 August 1969 (paragraph 41 below); in the meantime however the requisition was not formally prolonged, and therefore ceased to have legal effect after six months, more than four months after the bankruptcy of ELSI had been declared (paragraph 36 below). 33. As noted above (paragraph 16) the Parties disagree over whether, immediately prior to the requisition order, there had been any occupation of ELSI's plant by the employees, but it is common ground that the plant was so occupied during the period immediately following the requisition. On 19 April 1968 the representatives of the company stated, in an appeal against the requisition addressed to the Prefect of Palermo, that there had at that time been no occupation of the plant as a consequence of the dismissal of the employees on 29 March 1968, but that on 30 March 1968 a group of representatives of the personnel went to the plant to talk to the