Restart costs None of the claims in this instalment seek compensation for restart costs.

Claims preparation costs A number of category D claimants have made claims for claims preparation costs incurred by them, either in amounts specified on the claim form or in general terms.

Claims preparation costs The Panel has been informed by the Executive Secretary of the Commission that the Governing Council intends to resolve the issue of claims preparation costs in the future.

This amount is net of USD 162,456.74 relating to withdrawn claims, USD 28,644,101.99 for interest and USD 477,508.68 for claims preparation costs.

The claimants in that report did not submit any claims for medical treatment costs.

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.

Of those larger claims, it was suggested that most settle, often to avoid the potentially huge litigation costs involved in pursuing a claim.

Iraq also asserts that the costs for which Saudi Arabia claims compensation are excluded by Governing Council decision 19, which confirms that the costs of the Allied Coalition Forces, including those of military operations against Iraq, are not eligible for compensation .

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.

The Panel has been informed by the Executive Secretary of the Commission that the Governing Council intends to resolve the issue of claims preparation costs in the future.

Iran claims that it incurred additional costs because it provided more medical treatment than normal in 1990 and 1991 because of the effects of the oil well fires.

Jordan claims an amount of USD 102,962,079 for expenses incurred in treating low birth weight infants and an amount of USD 51,710,096 for costs incurred in treating malnourished children.

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

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.

Under UNCC decision 18, other paying agents have deducted such amounts from the final payments to the beneficiaries to cover their own claims processing costs, at an average rate of 1.5 per cent.

Under UNCC decision 18, other paying agents have deducted such amounts from the final payments to the beneficiaries to cover their own claims processing costs, at an average rate of 1.5 per cent.

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

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

Second instalment category A claims corrections Third instalment category A claims corrections Fourth instalment category A claims corrections Fifth instalment category A claims corrections Sixth instalment category A claims corrections First instalment category C claims corrections Fourth instalment category C claims corrections

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

Admissibility of claims

The Panel further finds that the number of refugees to whom Iran claims to have provided contraceptive services is consistent with the refugee population between the ages of 15 and 49, and that the costs claimed are reasonable.

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.

Of the 24 company claims in this instalment, 19 are stand alone claims four are corporate detainee claims and one is an E2 claim.

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.

(o) Ranking of claims

Valuation of secured 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.

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.

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

Accessibility of restitution claims procedures

Admission or denial of claims

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 ).

Iraq further states that it is not clear from the information provided whether Kuwait used these studies to prepare other claims, in which case it argues that the claim could constitute a claim for preparation costs.

As a result, approximately 5,000 duplicate claims were identified and eliminated during the course of claims processing.

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.

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.

Rather than imposing the costs of the ECB s and EFSF s losses on European taxpayers, the banks creditors could give up some of their claims in exchange for receiving shares from the banks owners. Debt equity swaps rescue the banks without rescuing their shareholders.

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.

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.

Duplicate claims

Reclamation claims

The UNCC secretariat commented that it has also assisted the D2 Panel of Commissioners in its review of the category D Palestinian late claims, a claims population with a significant risk of overstated claims.