(ii) Timeliness of the processing and settling of claims of troop contributing countries by the Claims and Information Management Section of the Finance Management and Support Service.

In a number of instances, claimants appeared not to recognize the types of losses or amounts claimed in their claims or some of the documents provided in support of their claims.

The Panel noted that several of the auditors had included pre invasion client lists in support of their claims.

Moreover, the Kuwaiti claimant appeared to have little or no knowledge of the documentary evidence filed in support of his claims.

However, in some other cases the information provided was not sufficient to provide the necessary support for the related substantive claims.

Iran relies on the results of studies funded by awards in the first instalment of F4 claims to support its claim.

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While some doubts were raised regarding this proposition, there was support for the view that only a small proportion of shipments of goods result in claims, and that only a small proportion of these claims are actually litigated.

Some delegations expressed support for the requirement to have appropriate financial security to cover claims for compensation as proposed in paragraph 3.

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

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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.

As to the two arrest warrants submitted to support his claims, the State party notes that the complainant has not explained how he obtained such documents.

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.

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

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

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

Duplicate claims

Reclamation claims

12.1 States should establish and support equitable, timely, independent, transparent and non discriminatory procedures, institutions and mechanisms to assess and enforce housing, land and property restitution 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.

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

In addition to evidence provided to support its third and fourth F4 instalment terrestrial claims, Kuwait submitted further details of its quantification of losses to its terrestrial resources.

Admissibility of claims

(e) Medical claims

Stand alone claims

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 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.

The E4 claims population consists of claims submitted by Kuwaiti private sector corporations and entities, other than oil sector and environmental claims, eligible to file claims under the Commission's Claim Forms for Corporations and Other Entities ( Form E ).

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.

Circumstances such as those described above raised concerns for the Panel about the evidentiary value of the audited financial statements provided in support of the claims in this instalment.

The individual category C and D claims in the thirtieth instalment are claims filed through a late claims programme established by the Governing Council for Palestinians who can demonstrate that they did not have a full and effective opportunity to file claims with the Commission during its filing period for individual claims from 1 January 1992 to 1 January 1996 (the regular filing period for individual claims ).

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.

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 .

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

(o) Ranking of claims

Valuation of secured claims

The Panel notes that the investment contracts, attestations from the Kuwaiti licence holders, supplier statements and estimates from real estate offices provided in support of these claims are virtually identical.

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.

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.

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.