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

Where the entire claim has been withdrawn, it has not been processed.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Table 1. Recommended awards for category A claims

Table 2. Recommended awards for category C claims

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.

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.

No compensation has been recommended for C7 Real Property losses where claimants fail to establish the fact of ownership.

The claims that were considered duplicated were not processed and the Panel recommends no awards of compensation in respect of these claims.

Iran, therefore, could have included these claim units in the submissions that it filed within these deadlines.

Claims identified by the matching programme as potential matches underwent manual verification to confirm whether they were in fact matches.

At times the claim preparers appeared to be more familiar with the claims than the claimants.

In the view of the Panel, this should involve the services of a qualified senior epidemiologist.

The seventh claim file was not transmitted to Iraq as the claimant objected to such transmission.

Kuwait states that its coastal environment was damaged by millions of barrels of oil deliberately released into the Persian Gulf by Iraqi forces.

The Panel found that this portion of the Claim did not meet the Commission s particularity requirement with respect to its statement of claim and therefore cannot recommend compensation for this portion of the Claim.

A more detailed explanation for the inclusion of the E2 claim in the thirtieth instalment and the Panel's assessment of the claim is provided below in section X.

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.

FIRST INSTALMENT CORRECTIONS

SECOND INSTALMENT CORRECTIONS

SECOND INSTALMENT CORRECTIONS

SIXTH INSTALMENT CORRECTIONS Bangladesh Kuwait

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Fifth instalment corrections

The Panel hereby presents the amounts recommended as compensation for 70,558 claims in the fourth instalment of category C claims.

One claim in the sixth instalment was found to be a duplicate of a claim awarded compensation in the fifth instalment.

Accordingly, the Panel recommends no compensation for this claim unit.

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

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.

The individual claimant whose claim had been identified as potentially overlapping with the E4 claim provided additional evidence and claimed for losses in addition to those losses claimed by the E4 claimant.

Third F4 instalment, claim No. 5000450 and fourth F4 instalment, claim Nos. 5000454 and 5000466.

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.

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.