3 in complying with the Judgment.1 At said hearing, Panama and the representatives of the Organización de Trabajadores Víctimas de la Ley 25 de 1990 de la República de Panamá (hereinafter “the Organización de Trabajadores Víctimas de la Ley 25”) submitted reports on the progress made in complying with the Judgment. 9. The briefs of June 5 and June 23, 2008 and other briefs submitted thereafter, whereby the Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (hereinafter “CEJIL”), the Organización de Trabajadores Víctimas de la Ley 25, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights forwarded their comments on the report of the State dated May 3, 2008. 10. The briefs of August 13, 2008 and September 12, 2008, and their annexes, whereby the State submitted, respectively, 191 and 11 copies of the "Agreement setting the Conditions for Compliance with Judgment of February 2, 2001 issued by the Inter-American Court of Rights of the Organization for American States (OAS) in the case of Baena-Ricardo et al. v. Panama” (hereinafter “the agreements”) signed by certain victims or successors in the instant case and the State. 11. The briefs of September 12, 15 and 19, 2008, and their annexes, whereby the Organización de Trabajadores Víctimas de la Ley 25, CEJIL and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights submitted their comments on the aforementioned agreements. CONSIDERING: 1. That monitoring the compliance with its decisions is an inherent jurisdictional power of the Court. 2. That Panama is a State Party to the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) as of June 22, 1978, and recognized as binding the jurisdiction of the Court on May 9, 1990. 1 According to Article 6(2) of the Rules of Procedure, the Court held the hearing with a commission of Judges composed by: Judge Cecilia Medina Quiroga, President; Judge Manuel E. Ventura Robles and Judge Margarette May Macaulay. The following persons attended the hearing: a) For the Inter-American Commission: Luz Patricia Mejía, Officer, and Lilly Ching, counsel; b) for the State of Panama: Edwin Salamin, Minister of Labor and Labor Development; Arístides Royo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Panama before the OAS; Luis E. Vergara, Ambassador of Panama to Costa Rica; Edgardo Sandoval, Chief of the Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nisla Lorena Aparicio, Alternate Representative of Panama before the OAS; Manuel Pérez, Internal Auditor of the Ministry of Labor and Labor Development, and Miguel Santizo, Counsel; c) for the representatives of over 240 victims represented by the Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional: Manrique Mejía, Jaime Espinosa, Estebana Nash, Juan O. Sanjur, Soraya Long and Marcela Martino, and d) for the representatives of 23 victims represented by the Organización de Trabajadores Víctimas de la Ley 25: Luis Batista, Rolando Gómez Camargo, Rubén Guevara and Cecilia Sanjur. At said hearing and during the written monitoring proceedings, the Inter-American Commission acted as representative of the victims who are not represented by the aforementioned organizations.