The Panel is aware that the Governing Council is considering the issue of duplication of awards resulting from, inter alia, related or competing claims for the ownership of a business.

Noting also that the failure of these first in time competing claimants to return the overpayments has resulted in a situation where second in time competing claimants have ongoing competing claims related suspensions on payments,

Instead, the US urged that competing claims be resolved through negotiation.

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

The problems will be dealt with in two categories claims of the community interest versus claims based on the interests of individual States, and claims that involve competing individual State interests.

Noting further that the suspension of payment to the second in time competing claimants was intended to be a temporary measure,

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

After extensive claim development and the verification measures described earlier in this report, the Panel was able to resolve the competing claims in the instalment.

In category D , competing claims are identified after conducting extensive database cross checks on claimant names, partner names, business names, civil identification numbers, business licence numbers, chamber of commerce identification numbers and other identifying data.

This instalment contains a number of competing claims for the losses of the same unincorporated business in Kuwait, some of which involve previously awarded claims.

Observing that in the course of claims processing, a number of category C , D and E competing claims were identified where two or more claimants claimed for the losses of the same business or company,

In the third group of competing claims, two Palestinian claimants, a Kuwaiti claimant and a Jordanian claimant filed category D claims for the losses of a group of lighting businesses in Kuwait.

The following are some the competing theories.

In the second set of competing claims, a Palestinian claimant and a Kuwaiti claimant filed separate claims in category D for the losses of a printing business in Kuwait.

Competing needs and interests must be balanced.

Filing of claims by representation

Claims

Soon, however, he was recoiling from what he saw as a chaos of competing ideas.

C6 Support claims are for the loss of financial support to the claimant.

Claims and adjustments 5 000

Claims and adjustments

Claims and adjustments 9.0 9.0 0.7 8.3

Claims and adjustments

Claims and adjustments 9.0 18.8 (9.8)

Claims and adjustments 12.0 12.0

Claims and adjustments 12.0

Claims and adjustments

Claims and adjustments 3.0

Claims and adjustments 0.9 3.0 3.0

Claims and adjustments 3.0 3.0 0.9 2.1

Claims and adjustments

Claims and adjustment

Claims and adjustments 30.0 32.5 2.5

Claims and adjustments

Claims and adjustments 5.0 5.0

Claims and adjustments 524.0 524.0

Claims and adjustments 524.0 524.0

Claims and adjustments 6 500

Claims and adjustments

Claims and adjustments 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Claims and adjustments 7.5 27.5 35.0

(b) Claims

Claims and adjustments 467.6 468.2 (0.6)

trade demands

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.