To date, approximately 20 billion has been made available to Governments and international organizations for distribution to successful claimants in all categories of claims.

Assists the Claims Survey officer in all aspects of his duties.

Under the terms of the 1947 peace treaty with the Allies, Italy relinquished all claims to Libya.

All claim areas, except Peter I Island, are sectors, the borders of which are defined by degrees of longitude.

The Governing Council determined that all of the claims were to be filed with the Commission by 31 March 2004.

All of the competing claimants were interviewed during the technical missions to Kuwait and Jordan.

Iraq provided comments on all of these claims and the Panel has taken these comments into account in its review of the claims.

The UNCC secretariat notes that all claims in categories D, E and F were individually reviewed and the supporting evidence examined.

The claim preparers were often listed as the contact persons in the claim files and some claim files included attestations from the claim preparers opining on the merits of the claim.

Claims

The secretariat has therefore reworked its projections and estimated that it would be possible to pay all individual claims in full in 2006.

For these claims, the electronic information existing in the database was compared to the paper claim forms submitted by the claimants.

Austria also lost almost all of her remaining claims and influence in Italy, which had been her chief foreign policy interest.

review of non overlapping claims in the FOURTHsecond group of overlapping claims

According to the Claimants, all losses that were a direct result of Iraq's illegal acts must be compensated in order to wipe out all the consequences of those illegal acts.

Some claimants indicated that they engaged a claim preparer after seeing advertisements placed in Kuwaiti newspapers offering assistance with the filing of Palestinian late claims .

Upon review of all documents submitted by the competing claimants, the Panel was unable to find any evidence that supported this contention.

Iraq, therefore, argues that all claims for compensation for interim loss of non commercial environmental resources should be rejected.

(e) Medical claims

In particular, the Panel considered that it was appropriate to propose, as needed, adjustments to such awards in the light of new information and evidence presented.

Duplicate claims

Category C corrections Recommendations for corrections to category C claims are those arising from confirmed duplicate claims, discrepancies between the electronic and paper claim formats, and multiple recovery based on the duplication of claim awards.

Stand alone claims

A similar exercise was conducted with respect to category C for the purpose of identifying duplicate claims during claims processing.

Concerning the issue of duplicate claims, the secretariat indicated that it was aware of the risk of duplicate claims from the outset of claims processing and took steps to identify and eliminate such claims during the course of claims processing.

In connection with the claims by governments for loss of life and reduced quality of life of their nationals, Iraq asserts that the claims are inadmissible because the Claimants concerned lack legal standing to bring such claims before the Commission.

The Panel notes that common traits displayed by these claim preparers include their command of the English language and familiarity with the Commission's claim development procedures and jurisprudence from the regular claims programme.

The secretariat has also used these electronic searches for duplicate claims in the Palestinian late claims programme, the Bedouin programme and the category A and C late claims programme.

First F4 instalment, claim Nos. 5000363, 5000408 and 5000409.

Claims and Survey Unit

The total losses alleged in the instalment therefore are USD 35,972,592.

Where a claimant claims in a currency other than Kuwaiti dinars, the Panel values the claim in Kuwaiti dinars using the appropriate exchange rate.

The present report sets out the Panel's recommendations for a fourthsecond group of overlapping claims from resolved E4 instalments (the fourthsecond group of overlapping claims ).

Valuation of secured claims

The Panel reviewed the issues submitted and decided that, within the time allocated to them, the Claimants and Iraq could address all of the issues which they had proposed.

Only unreasonable claims may be refused, but the state will bear the burden of proving unreasonableness.

Claim preparers often attended interviews with claimants and frequently acted as interpreters.

All of the individual Palestinian claims in this instalment have been determined by the Palestinian Panel of Commissioners to be eligible for inclusion in the late claims programme, since those claimants have established that they did not have a full and effective opportunity to file claims with the Commission within its regular filing period for individual claims.

All of the individual Palestinian claims in this instalment have been determined by the Palestinian Panel of Commissioners to be eligible for inclusion in the late claims programme, since those claimants have established that they did not have a full and effective opportunity to file claims with the Commission within its regular filing period for individual claims.

Accordingly, all but one of these claims were transferred to the merged E4 Panel of Commissioners for review as stand alone claims in accordance with decision 123.

Draft article 15 Category of claims

These claims are discussed below.

These E4 claims were considered in the second instalment of E4 claims.

This global approach was suited to the specifics of category C claims processing, as category C claims are subject to mass claims processing procedures and are not subject to extensive individual review or claim development.

Details of the claims or parts of claims that were deferred from previous F4 instalments or transferred from other claims categories are discussed in the relevant sections of this report.