12 Nevertheless, these matters are not crucial to the resolution of the procedural issues now before the Court. In this case, however, it should be borne in mind that the preparation of the Article 51 report is conditional upon the matter not having been submitted to the Court within the threemonth period set by Article 51 (1). Thus, if the application has been filed with the Court, the Commission has no authority to draw up the report referred to in Article 51. 64. The Government maintains that the above procedures were not fully complied with and that the Commission applied Articles 50 and 51 simultaneously. The Court will now examine this objection, keeping in mind the special features of the procedure followed before the Commission, which gave rise to some unique problems due largely to initiatives taken both by the Commission and the Government. 65. The Commission adopted two Resolutions (30/83 and 22/86) approximately two and a half years apart, neither of which was formally called a "report" for purposes of Article 50. This raises two problems. The first concerns the prerequisites for reports prepared pursuant to Article 50 and the question whether the resolutions adopted by the Commission fulfill those requirements. The other problem concerns the existence of two resolutions, the second of which both confirms the earlier one and contains the decision to submit the case to the Court. 66. In addressing the first issue, it should be noted that the Convention sets out, in very general terms, the requirements that must be met by reports prepared pursuant to Article 50. Under this article, such reports must set forth the facts and conclusions of the Commission, to which may be added such proposals and recommendations as the Commission sees fit. In that sense, Resolution 30/83 meets the requirements of Article 50. 67. The Commission did not call Resolution 30/83 a "report," however, and the terms employed by the Commission do not conform to the wording of the Convention. That is, nonetheless, irrelevant if the content of the resolution approved by the Commission is substantially in keeping with the terms of Article 50, as in the instant case, and so long as it does not affect the procedural rights of the parties (particularly those of the States) to have one last opportunity to resolve the matter before it can be filed with the Court. Whether this last condition was complied with in the instant case is related to the other problem: the Commission's adoption of two Resolutions -- Nos. 30/83 and 22/86. 68. The Commission adopted Resolution 30/83 at its 61st Session (October 1983) and transmitted it to the Government by note of October 11, 1983. On November 18 of the same year, that is, fewer than three months after the adoption of Resolution 30/83 and, thus, within the deadline for filing the application with the Court, the Government asked the Commission to reconsider the Resolution on the grounds that various domestic remedies were underway and still pending which could lead to the settlement of the matter in the terms suggested by the Commission. The Commission approved the request for reconsideration and decided at its 62nd Session (May 1984) "to continue the study of the case." Pursuant to that Resolution, the Commission asked the Government to provide additional information. Because the Commission deemed the evidence presented since the adoption of Resolution 32/83 insufficient to warrant a new study of the matter, it adopted Resolution 22/86 on April 18, 1986, which confirmed Resolution 30/83 and contained its decision to submit the case to the Court. 69. The Convention does not foresee a situation where the State might request the reconsideration of a report approved pursuant to Article 50. Article 54 of the Commission's Regulations does contemplate the possibility of a request for reconsideration of a resolution. However, that provision only applies to petitions involving States that are not parties to the Convention, which is not the instant case. Quite apart from strictly formal considerations, the procedure followed by States Parties to the Convention in requesting reconsideration has repercussions on procedural deadlines and can, as in the instant case, have negative effects on the petitioner's right to obtain the international protection offered by the Convention within the