The process claims were allowed by the Patent Examiner, while the product claims disallowed.

The process of collecting and verifying claims is time consuming, and the net benefit for taxpayers is low.

13.6 States should ensure that users of housing, land and or property, including tenants, have the right to participate in the restitution claims process, including through the filing of collective restitution claims.

The claims process for the Medical Insurance Plan, used by field offices, should be outsourced to ensure the confidentiality of participants.

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

The fourthsecond group of overlapping claims initially consisted of E4 claims related to 39seven category C claims and 24 category C and D claims.

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.

Seventy per cent of complainants considered their claims properly addressed, 78 per cent considered the process fair and 87 per cent indicated they would use it again.

Duplicate claims

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.

States should ensure that all affected persons are made aware of the restitution claims process, and that information about this process is made readily available, including in countries of origin, countries of asylum or countries to which they have fled.

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

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

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

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.

13.2 States should ensure that all aspects of the restitution claims process, including appeals procedures, are just, timely, accessible, free of charge, and are age and gender sensitive.

Admissibility of claims

(e) Medical claims

Stand alone claims

Of the 24 company claims in this instalment, 19 are stand alone claims four are corporate detainee claims and one is an E2 claim.

These claims have been recognized only between the countries making claims in the area.

The fifth F4 instalment includes a number of claims or parts of claims that were deferred from previous F4 instalments or transferred from other claims categories.

Paragraph 1(b) of decision 123 directs the Executive Secretary to transfer and process in E4 as Kuwaiti company claims those stand alone claims for which the individual claimant has been found by the D Panels to have authority to file a claim on behalf of the company ( authority to act ).

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Valuation of secured claims

As a result of the computer programme and manual follow up, 37,850 category A claims were identified as confirmed duplicate claims during the course of claims processing.

(v) Provision of secretariat services to the Claims Board and the Advisory Board on Compensation Claims.

In addition, the searches identified 287 E4 claims in the remaining E4 instalments as potentially overlapping with 168 claims in category C and 203 claims in category D .

As stated above, the eligible category D Palestinian late claims have a higher incidence of loss types and higher amounts claimed than claims in the regular category D claims programme, giving rise to a potential risk of overstatement of the claims.

Category A corrections higher to lower amounts Family to individual The Government of the Philippines reported that 17 claims originally filed as family claims were in fact individual 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.

As a result, approximately 5,000 duplicate claims were identified and eliminated during the course of claims processing.

These claims are wildly overstated.

Claims Survey Officer (FS 5)

Aboriginal land claims and agreements

Accessibility of restitution claims procedures

These claims are discussed below.

CATEGORY C PALESTINIAN LATE CLAIMS

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.

The Panel reviewed approximately 160 D4 (personal property) claims and 70 D4 (motor vehicles) claims in this instalment.

Pursuant to article 34 of the Rules, notifications were transmitted to each individual claimant requesting additional information in order to assist the Panel in its review of the claims (the claim development process).

Although the category D Panel (the D' Panel ) began its review of claims in 1996, the first five instalments of category D claims did not include any claims for business losses.

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.