into account the parameters of the calculations provided by the State, the Court sets, in equity, the amount of US$26,000.00 (twenty-six thousand dollars of the United States of America) for the mentioned period, added to the amount for pecuniary damages indicated above. Therefore, the Court considers that the State should pay Mr. Mejía Idrovo the total sum of US$358,033.59 (three hundred and fifty-eighty thousand, and thirty three dollars of the United States of America with fifty-nine cents) be provided to Mr. Mejía Idrovo, as compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages. This amount must be paid to Mr. Mejía Idrovo within one year as of legal notice this Judgment, without applying any discount or deduction for taxes. E. Costs and Expenses 157. As has been noted previously by the Court in prior opportunities, the costs and expenses are understood within the concept of reparations enshrined in Article 63(1) of the American Convention. 114 158. The Commission requested that “once the representatives of the victim had been heard,” the Court order the State to pay the costs that have been incurred at the domestic level, as well as those incurred from the handling of the case before the Commission and those that arose as a consequence of the processing before the Court that have been duly proven. 159. The representatives requested the Court to order the State to reimburse the costs and expenses incurred by the victim for the legal assistance for his defense in the proceedings carried out at the domestic, as well as the international level. On the other hand, they requested the reimbursement of expenses incurred by the CEDHU by representing the victim before international bodies, mainly relating to communication and travel costs made by an attorney representing him during the procedure of the case before the Commission and before this Court. As a consequence, they requested that the Court order payment for costs and expenses in the amount of US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand dollars of the United States of America). In the final arguments, they noted that Mr. Mejía Idrovo hired the professional services of Mr. Edison Burbano Portilla for the amount of US$ 30,000.00 (thirty thousand dollars of the United States of America), which would be paid once Mr. Mejía Idrovo was reinstated in active service, and the damage is recognized, and they also submitted receipts of the flight expenses of colonel Mejía Idrovo and his lawyer Xavier Mejía traveling to a working session of the Inter-American Commission in 2008, as well as the receipts related to the expenses incurred in regard to his attendance at the public hearing before the Court in the amount of US$ 4,022.88 (four thousand and twenty-two dollars of the United States of America and eightyeight cents). In short, the representatives requested the reimbursement of expenses amounting to a total of approximately US$ 34,000.00 (thirty-four thousand dollars of the United States of America). With regards to expenses incurred by the CEDHU in the international forum and the nine years of litigation, the representatives made "available information regarding costs before the Commission and [...] in the stage of the proceedings being carried out before the Court," they considered that "it would 114 Cf. Case of Garrido and Baigorria V. Argentina. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of August 27, 1998. Series C. No. 39, para. 79; Case of Abrill Alosilla V. Perú, supra note 19, para. 133, and Case of Vera Vera et al. V. Ecuador, supra note 12, para. 140. 46