The Commission then advised these individual claimants to resubmit their claims for business losses on category D claim forms.

It should be noted that, when notifying the Commission of these duplicate claims, the Governments returned to the Compensation Fund the full amount of the awards issued for such duplicate claims.

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.

A preliminary examination of these claims revealed that some, but not all, of the Kuwaiti companies in issue had filed claims with the Commission, which were being processed as E4 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.

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.

It should be noted that, when notifying the Commission of these duplicate claims, the Government of Jordan returned to the Compensation Fund the full amount of the award issued for the duplicate claims.

The average number of loss types is 3.14 for the claims in this instalment, compared with 2.01 for all claims in the regular category D claims programme, 1.93 for Jordanian claims and 1.71 for Kuwaiti claims.

The Commission received information from the Governments of the Philippines, India and Jordan that claims, which they had submitted in category A , were potentially duplicate claims.

A preliminary examination of these claims also revealed that in some instances the Kuwaiti companies in question had filed separate claims with the Commission, which were being processed as E4 claims. However, there were a number of instances where the Kuwaiti company had not filed a separate claim with the Commission.

The transfer of responsibilities from the Commission for Real Property Claims to the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities was completed during the reporting period.

The average amount claimed for the claims in this instalment is about USD 2 million, compared to about USD 820,000 for all claims, about USD 934,000 for Jordanian claims and about USD 861,000 for Kuwaiti claims in the regular category D claims programme.

Of these claims, the Panel recommends awards of compensation for two claims, while no awards are recommended for the remaining 16 claims.

In the view of the Panel, a possible reason for the discrepancy in the numbers of refugees provided by Iran in its various claims before the Commission is that different periods were considered in the different claims.

Moreover, the Indian Claims Commission is an advisory body whose recommendations are not binding upon the federal government.

Following the technical missions, the Panel checked whether the auditing firms had themselves filed claims with the Commission.

Claims preparation costs The Panel has been informed by the Executive Secretary of the Commission that the Governing Council intends to resolve the issue of claims preparation costs in the future.

Whilst LOAC IHL makes provision for inter State claims for compensation, there is no express provision for individual claims.

He claims that the unsatisfactory situation at the Commission he portrayed in his communication was that occurring at the time his complaint was considered by the Commission.

Iraq argues that governments can only submit claims before the Commission for losses that they have sustained directly, and that they may not seek compensation for losses suffered by individuals.

Recommended awards for category C claims

However, the electoral commission finally ratified the results and confirmed that Al Maliki claims are found to be not true.

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

The Commission received written comments from Iraq on the claims on 23 and 30 August 2004 and 29 October 2004.

Following informal discussions with the Governing Council in late 1994, the Commission informed those individuals that they were not eligible to file claims on behalf of the companies in question and advised them to resubmit their claims for business losses on category D claim forms.

The Commission becomes active as four coastal States have submitted their claims under article 76 of the Convention and a number of countries have indicated the coming submission of their claims between 2005 and 2008.

Decides also that, based on the above corrections, the corrected total awards by instalment are as follows Recommended corrected total awards for category A claims Recommended corrected total awards for category C claims Recommended corrected total awards for category D claims Recommended corrected total awards for category C Palestinian late claims

Recommended award for claim No. 5000394 Recommended awards for the claims of Iran The Panel's recommendations for Iran's claims are summarized in table 7.

Recalling that pursuant to articles 38 (a) and (b) of the Provisional Rules for Claims Procedure (S AC.26 1992 10), the Governing Council encouraged the adoption of consolidation and other administrative procedures to facilitate the resolution of nearly 2.7 million claims filed with the Commission,

This amount is net of USD 162,456.74 relating to withdrawn claims, USD 28,644,101.99 for interest and USD 477,508.68 for claims preparation costs.

With regard to claims for expenses resulting from public health expenditures, Iraq contends that there is no legal basis for such claims.

It should be noted that, when notifying the Commission that these claims should have been awarded the lower amount, the Governments concerned returned to the Compensation Fund the excess amount previously awarded in respect of these claims.

(b) To implement the decisions of the Commission on Human Rights on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman and the Human Rights Chamber, and the decisions of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees

Therefore the Palestinian Panel determined that these two claims were ineligible for inclusion in the Palestinian late claims programme.

Iraq states that Kuwait's claim for loss of individual well being is inadmissible because it relates to losses suffered directly by individuals who could have submitted such claims to the Commission.

Second instalment category A claims corrections Third instalment category A claims corrections Fourth instalment category A claims corrections Fifth instalment category A claims corrections Sixth instalment category A claims corrections First instalment category C claims corrections Fourth instalment category C claims corrections

So far we've applied for 414 patent claims.

Unsustainable claims should not be made for it.

Table 1. Recommended awards for category A claims

Table 2. Recommended awards for category C claims

CRITERIA for determining the existence of overlapping claims

Recommended corrected total awards for category C claims

Recommended corrected total awards for category D claims

1 Recommended awards for the deceased detainee claims

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.