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 ).

Decision concerning follow up programme for environmental claims awards (S AC.26 Dec.258 (2005)).

Iraq, therefore, argues that all claims for compensation for interim loss of non commercial environmental resources should be rejected.

Iraq also claims that fishing restrictions arising as a consequence of the conflict would have had a beneficial environmental effect.

Recalling the Governing Council's previous conclusions that due to the special circumstances faced by environmental claims, it would consider, at the appropriate time, the possibility of a different payment mechanism for successful environment claims,

The Governing Council, in previous conclusions, had indicated that owing to the character of environmental claims, it would consider, at the appropriate time, the possibility of a different payment mechanism which would prioritize successful environment claims.

The Panel also confirmed that the results of the projects had been valuable to it in the review of the substantive environmental claims.

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

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

On 23 December 1998, the secretariat severed the elements relating to environmental damage from claim 5000208 and assigned these elements to claim No. 5000309 which was transferred to the F4 claims category.

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.

Some of these projects were intended to provide information to assist with the review of substantive claims by producing scientific and technical information about the nature and extent of environmental damage and potential remediation measures.

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.

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

The environmental risks to human health caused by industry can be clearly seen in the case of asbestos, which claims over 100,000 workers every year, with 25 30 year latency periods and with mortality rates expected to rise.

Environmental management This consists of environmental modification, environmental manipulation and measures to reduce human vector contact.

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.

124 (2001)) and 226 (S AC.26 Dec.226 (2004)), the Commission allocated a total of USD 14 million in technical assistance to Iraq for its review of the claims related to environmental damage and depletion of natural 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.

Indeed, in the case of environmental claims, the duty to prevent and mitigate damage is a necessary consequence of the common concern for the protection and conservation of the environment, and entails obligations toward the international community and future generations.

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.

Environmental

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

UNCC stated that although the proposed review was again discussed with the Office of Internal Oversight Services at a meeting in Geneva on 22 December 2004, nothing further had been proposed by the Office since that time, apart from a recommendation in its audit report on the fifth instalment of F4 claims to develop guidelines for filings on environmental claims as part of a lessons learned exercise.

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.

The analysis on environmental goods and services (EGS) focuses on identifying environmental goods of potential environmental and trade interest for developing countries.