6 indicated, inter alia, that there are no legal grounds for maintaining the provisional measures (supra sixth considering paragraph). 18. That, based on the above, the Court takes note of the State’s request to lift the provisional measures and decides that, before ruling on this request, it considers it necessary to require the parties to forward detailed and specific information on the existence at the present time of the procedural requirements of extreme gravity and urgency and of possible irreparable damage to Carlos Nieto Palma and Ivonne Sánchez Palma, that would justify the need to maintain in force the provisional measures ordered by the Court in their favor, in keeping with their purpose. * * * 19. That the Court will assess the pertinence of maintaining in force the provisional measures ordered in favor of Carlos Nieto Palma and Ivonne Palma Sánchez when it has received the requested information and the corresponding observations of the parties (supra eighteenth considering paragraph). THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS pursuant to the authority conferred by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Articles 25 and 29 of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To require the State to maintain the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of Carlos Nieto Palma and Ivonne Palma Sánchez, for at least six months from notification of this Order, following which the Court will assess the pertinence of maintaining them in force. 2. To request Carlos Nieto Palma or his representatives to submit, by October 10, 2008, at the latest, their observations on the existence and continuation of the assumptions of extreme gravity and urgency and of possible irreparable damage that justify the need to maintain these provisional measures in force. 3. To require the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights its observations on the observations of Mr. Nieto Palma or his representatives that were requested in the preceding operative paragraph, within two weeks of receiving them. Also, to require the State to present a report to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights on the observations of Carlos Nieto Palma and Ivonne Palma Sánchez and of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, within two weeks of receiving them. 4. To require the Secretariat of the Court to notify this Order to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the beneficiaries or their representatives, and the State.