The Panel considers that this is a claim for claim preparation costs.

Recommended award for claim No. 5000301 Claim No. 5000288 Other resources Claim No. 5000288 comprises six claim units, with a total asserted value of USD 7,916,024,475, for losses resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Recommended award for claim No. 5000468 Claim No. 5000183 Public health Claim No. 5000183 comprises four claim units, with a total asserted value of USD 1,476,336,427, for losses resulting from damage or risk of damage to public health.

Recommended award for Claim No. 5000309 Claim No. 4002545 Agricultural resources (Shadco) Claim No. 4002545 comprises two claim units, with a total asserted value of USD 2,676,101, for losses of agricultural crops by the Ash Sharqiah Development Co. ( Shadco ) as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

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.

Recommended award for claim No. 5000286 Claim No. 5000301 Fisheries resources Claim No. 5000301 is a claim for compensation for losses incurred by the Iranian Fisheries Company ( IFC ), due to decreases in fisheries production and a delay in the implementation of a fisheries related project as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

The deferred part of claim No. 5000458 is reviewed as part of the second claim unit (terrestrial resources) of this claim.

At the request of Saudi Arabia, the secretariat incorporated that claim in the current claim (Claim No. 5000463).

Iraq asserts that this claim unit should be rejected as a claim filed after the expiry of the applicable deadline.

This claim was originally part of category F3 claim No. 5000194.

Multiple nationality and claim against a State of nationality

Claim No. 5000304 Loss of natural resources Claim No. 5000304 comprises five claim units, with an asserted value of USD 4,330,635,352, for depletion of natural resources as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

a transaction involving the transfer of a debt or assignment of a claim.

Second claim unit Claim preparation costs Saudi Arabia seeks compensation in the amount of USD 5,874 for claim preparation costs.

Nine dashes, and a historic claim

The author filed a counter claim.

The award for this category A claim should be reduced to the amount appropriate to the proper status of the claim.

Noting also that claim number 4002126 was thus filed as a consolidated claim in the name of Syndicate 1131 at Lloyd's,

The first claim unit is for a reduction in crop yields the second claim unit is for a reduction in the quality of crops and the third claim unit is for a proposed long term monitoring and assessment project.

Rather, the current claim relates to a separate and distinct claim relating to family unity and stability.

The claim comprises four claim units with an asserted value of USD 161,000,000.

(c) If upon payment of the amounts referred to in sub paragraphs (a) and (b) above on any claim, that claim will have a remaining balance of 100,000 or less, the Executive Secretary may pay the full remaining balance of the claim

Claim No. 5000309 Agricultural resources Claim No. 5000309 comprises two claim units, with a total asserted value of USD 481,442, for losses of livestock and crop resources in the Al Hassa region of Saudi Arabia as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

As a result of further information received from the Governments of India, Pakistan and the Philippines, one claim submitted by the Government of India, one claim submitted by the Government of Pakistan and 22 claims submitted by the Government of the Philippines have been identified as having been filed for a higher amount in category A by a claimant who had also filed a claim in another claim category.

Serbia s claim to Kosovo is, to Serbs, far stronger than Russia s claim to Chechnya, China s to Xinjiang, India s to Kashmir (a claim still disputed by Pakistan), and the Philippines to the island of Mindanao.

Third claim unit Claim preparation costs Jordan seeks compensation in the amount of USD 1,700,000 for claim preparation costs for its fourth and fifth F4 instalment claims, including its public health claim.

Sixth claim unit Claim preparation costs Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 4,500,000 for administrative, technical and legal expenses of the preparation of this claim.

The deferred part of claim No. 5000379 has been included in claim No. 5000301.

Claim No. 5000460 Loss of natural resources Claim No. 5000460 comprises three claim units, with a total asserted value of USD 967,831,391, for loss of ecological and human services resulting from damage to or depletion of terrestrial, marine and groundwater resources.

The sixth claim unit is for claim preparation costs.

The fifth claim unit is for claim preparation costs.

The third claim unit is for claim preparation costs.

This claim is the deferred portion of claim No. 5000259 relating to remediation of coastal mudflats.

As stated in paragraph 165 above, a request for information concerning the identity and evidence of authority to file a claim on behalf of a deceased person was issued in one claim.

The remaining claim was deferred pending the receipt of a response to a request for information concerning the identity and evidence of authority of the individual who filed a claim on behalf of a deceased person.

The Governing Council determined in decision 123 that a claim can only be found to be a stand alone claim if the claimant first demonstrates that he or she had the authority to act on behalf of the Kuwaiti company in filing a claim.

The secretariat's review of the documents provided in support of this claim indicated that the claimant's D6 claim was complementary to, and not a duplicate of, his C6 claim, and therefore the deduction initially performed by the secretariat was incorrect.

Recommended award for claim No. 5000304 Claim No. 5000464 Public health Claim No. 5000464 comprises three claim units, with a total asserted value of USD 886,481,830, for losses due to the presence of refugees who entered Jordan after departing from Iraq or Kuwait between 2 August 1990 and 2 March 1991 as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Multiple nationality and claim against a third State

The elements of Claim No. 5000309 were originally part of claim 5000208 in the F2 claims category.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Water of Saudi Arabia originally submitted this claim unit as claim 5000207.

On 13 August 2003, the secretariat transferred a part of claim No. 5000456 in the fourth F4 instalment and assigned it to claim No. 5000288.

Iraq further asserts that Jordan's claim of a reduction in rangeland productivity is based on just two values for productivity in 1983 and in 1993, and that the claim is inappropriately extrapolated from the rangeland productivity claim.

The claim preparation costs in claim No. 5000464 relate to all of Jordan's fourth and fifth F4 instalment claims, and not only its public health claim.

(a) The person asserting a claim against the carrier has the option of either