A) Proposed by the Inter-American Commission 1. José Jonathan Zeitune, a lawyer specializing in Public International Law with experience in issues related to judicial independence, who will render an expert opinion on “international standards applicable to the effects of the provisional appointment of judges and prosecutors in relation to the principle of judicial independence, due process and judicial guarantees of persons subject to criminal proceedings, particularly in the context of a criminal complaint in which matters with a [supposed] political content are debated.” B) Proposed by the representatives: 2. Antonio Canova González, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Central University of Venezuela and at the Andrés Bello Catholic University of Caracas, who will render an expert opinion on: “the legal system of the judicial profession in Venezuela, in particular on the Constitutional system, the legal system, the regimen resulting from the judicial emergency and the current legal system[;] its conformity with the Constitution and with the requirements of professionalism, independence and impartiality according to the standards of a democratic society and its relevance to the criminal proceeding against professor Brewer Carías.” 3. Carlos Tiffer Sotomayor, Professor of Criminal Law of the University of Costa Rica and of Criminology at the Universidad Estatal de Estudios a Distancia of Costa Rica, to render an opinion on: a) “[the] guarantees due to the defendant during the different phases of the criminal proceeding in the adversarial system, particularly the investigation phase of that process”; b) “universal standards of independence and impartiality of judges and their specific application to the proceeding initiated against professor Allan R. Brewer Carías”; c) “the juridical nature of amnesty, with particular reference to the principles of criminal legality and equality before the law”; d) “the protection of the attorney-client relationship, especially regarding opinions issued in the context of a professional relationship”; e) “a legal opinion issued by a lawyer as an exercise in freedom of expression”; and f) “reported violations of the right to freedom of expression of professor Brewer Carías.” 2. To require the representatives and the State to submit, if they consider it pertinent and within a non-renewable term that expires on August 12, 2013, any questions deemed pertinent through the Inter-American Court to the deponents specified in Operative Paragraph 1 of this Order. The statements and expert opinions required in the preceding Operative Paragraph shall be presented no later than August 28, 2013. 3. To require the representatives and the State coordinate and make the necessary arrangements so that, once the respective questions indicated in Operative Paragraph 2, the deponents and the expert witnesses may include the respective answers in their statements rendered by affidavit, under the terms of Considering Paragraph 98 of this Order. 4. To require the Secretariat of the Court, once the statements and expert opinions required in Operative Paragraph 1 have been received, to transmit them to the parties and to the Commission so that they may submit their observations, in accordance with Considering Paragraph 98, no later than with their final written arguments and 30

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