7) Julián Axat, defender of the juvenile courts of La Plata, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, who will render an expert opinion on the supposed current failings of the disciplinary mechanisms in the Buenos Aires police force in cases of alleged human rights violations or operational irregularities by police agents. 8) Ignacio Cano, a sociologist, researcher and professor, who will render an expert opinion on the implementation of modern police oversight systems in different police forces around the world, the powers and authority necessary for their proper functioning, and on the current regulations of the Argentine Federal Police and the police of Buenos Aires. 2. To require the State to submit, if it so wishes, any questions deemed pertinent through the Inter-American Court to the alleged victims and expert witnesses indicated in Operative paragraph 1 of this Order. The State shall submit these questions within the nonrenewable term that expires on January 10, 2013. The statements required in Operative paragraph 1 shall be submitted the representatives no later than January 28, 2013. 3. To require the representatives to coordinate and make the necessary arrangements so that, once the questions of the State have been received, the deponents and expert witnesses proposed may include the answers in their respective statements and expert opinions rendered by affidavit, in accordance with Considering paragraph 21 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 InterAmerican Commission, the representatives and the State. If the State deems it necessary, it may submit its observations to those statements and expert opinions with its final written arguments, at latest. 5. To summon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the representatives and the Argentine Republic to a public hearing be held during the Court’s 98th Regular Period of Sessions, at its seat in San Jose, Costa Rica, on February 5, 2013 from 15.00 to 18.30 hours, and on February 6, 2013 from 9.00 to 13.00 hours, to receive their final oral arguments and final oral observations, respectively, regarding the merits and possible reparations and costs, well as to receive the statements and expert opinion of the following persons: Alleged victim proposed by the representatives: 1) Nilda Maldonado de Gutiérrez, wife of Jorge Omar Gutiérrez, who will describe her life at the time when her husband was allegedly murdered and will testify on the efforts she and her family made to discover the truth about the events that occurred, the actions of the police, prosecutors and judicial authorities, the alleged obstacles faced by her family in the search for justice, and the supposed impact that her husband’s death and the alleged impunity of this event had on her life and that of her family. Expert witness proposed by the representatives: