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

32.4 A Party to the Convention asserting a claim pursuant to this Article shall submit its claim in writing to any Annex _ Party against whom it makes such claim within six years following the year for which the claim is made.

A Party to the Convention asserting a claim pursuant to this Article shall submit its claim in writing to any Annex _ Party against whom it makes such claim within six years following the year for which the claim is made.

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

The first step was the electronic matching of claims and the manual verification of matches in order to identify those claims filed under the late claims programme by claimants who previously filed claims during the regular filing period.

As a result of these matching procedures, the Panel determined that a total of 4,4,82 claims or nine per cent of the total claims population were not eligible for inclusion in the late claims programme.

During the course of its review of claims in the special instalment, the Panel identified one claim that included D8 D9 (individual business) losses in respect of two ready made clothing businesses that were also the subject of a category D claim filed by an Indian claimant in the regular claims programme, which was awarded compensation.

While the claimants in this instalment claimed for D2 and D3 losses more frequently than claimants in the regular category D claims programme and asserted higher claimed amounts, 103 of the 117 claims are not recommended for compensation as the claimants failed to prove the essential requirements of ownership, loss or causation.

The Panel reviewed the statistical data and noted that the average and median claimed amounts are generally lower than amounts claimed in the regular category D claims programme and the average proposed awards for these losses are also lower than the awards in the regular claims programme.

duplicate claims Two or more claims filed by a claimant under the late claims programme in the same category.

9. Claim by Third Parties against UNEP

Where the entire claim has been withdrawn, it has not been processed.

In the absence of a satisfactory response or the submission of the original document that relates to the claimant's reasons for late filing, the Panel finds that the claimant is not eligible to participate in the late claims programme.

The Panel is of the view that in a late claims programme, there is a risk that third parties not eligible for late filing may attempt to claim their own losses through claimants in this instalment.

The average number of loss types per claim is higher in this instalment than for claims in the regular category D claims programme as a whole.

A total of 37 confirmed matches were identified, which related either to claims filed by the same claimant within the bedoun programme or to claims filed by the same claimant in different claim categories.

Audit of E 1 claims, 10th instalment

Audit of F 4 claims, 5th instalment

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.

Matching of 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.

The median amount claimed is about USD 470,000 for claims in this instalment, compared with about USD 263,000 for all claims, about USD 335,000 for Jordanian claims and about USD 276,000 for Kuwaiti claims in the regular category D claims programme Approximately 75 per cent of the claims in this instalment contain D8 D9 business losses in relation to unincorporated establishments in Kuwait.

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.

Audit of D 1 claims, 19th instalment

This fifth instalment reports the adjusted recommended award amounts for such claims.

It is recommended that no compensation be awarded for the duplicate claim in the sixth instalment.

matching claims Two or more claims filed by a claimant during the regular filing period and under the late claims programme.

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.

As stated above, the eligible category D Palestinian late claims have a higher number of loss types per claim and substantially higher amounts claimed than claims in the regular category D claims programme.

The Panel reviewed the statistical data indicating that these claimants claimed more frequently for business losses and for substantially higher amounts than claimants in the regular category D claims programme.

Having reviewed the claims, the Panel recommends awards of compensation for the families' claims for loss of support in accordance with the applicable methodology.

However, 14 of these claimants filed duplicative claims in the bedoun programme, reducing the number of claims filed by such claimants to 29,051.

However, 11 of these claimants filed duplicative claims in the bedoun programme, reducing the number of claims filed by such claimants to 387.

However, 10 of these claimants filed duplicative claims in the bedoun programme, reducing the number of claims filed by such claimants to 1,436.

Overall, there are 31,31,70 claims that the Panel has determined to be ineligible for inclusion in the late claims programme because the claimants failed to provide satisfactory reasons for late filing.

The results of this analysis showed that the proposed average and median recommended awards for claims in this instalment were lower than those for comparable claimants in the regular category D claims programme.

The statistical data shows that while the average and median claimed amounts for business losses are substantially higher than for claims in the regular category D claims programme, the average and median recommended awards are generally lower than awards in the regular category D claims programme.

57. As regards third party claims and arbitration costs, the Advisory Committee has expressed concern at the increasing frequency of large claim submissions.

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.

Therefore, these claimants are not eligible to participate in the late claims programme.

For example, cross checks and electronic and manual matching have been conducted in order to identify duplicate or overlapping or competing claims as mentioned above.

During that time, notifications were issued in respect of 28,911 claims, representing per cent of the total claims population, to elicit further information concerning the claimants' reasons for late filing.

With respect to the D1 departure claims, the Panel noted that the data indicated that claimants in this instalment claimed for this loss type more frequently than claimants in the regular claims programme and had higher average and median claimed amounts and higher average and median recommended awards.

Table 1. Recommended awards for category A claims

Table 2. Recommended awards for category C claims