7 30. On monitoring compliance with judgment, the President finds that further information is required with regard to the actions taken by the State to comply with the pending operative paragraphs. 31. Regarding monitoring compliance with judgment, Article 69 of the Rules of Procedure,4 stipulates that: 1. The procedure for monitoring compliance with the judgments and other decisions of the Court shall be carried out through the submission of reports by the State and observations to those reports by the victims or their legal representatives. The Commission shall present observations to the State’s reports and to the observations of the victims or their representatives. 2. The Court may require from other sources of information relevant data regarding the case in order to evaluate compliance therewith. To that end, the Tribunal may also request the expert opinions or reports that it considers appropriate. 3. When it deems it appropriate, the Court may convene the parties to a hearing in order to monitor compliance with its decisions. […] 4. Once the Tribunal has obtained all relevant information, it shall determine the status of compliance with its decisions and shall issue the relevant orders. 32. In the instant case it is pertinent and opportune to convene a private hearing for the Inter-American Court to receive complete and updated information from the State on compliance with all the measures of reparation ordered in the judgment delivered in this case and to hear the corresponding observations of the Inter-American Commission and the representatives. THEREFORE THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of the authority of the Court to monitor compliance with its decisions, and pursuant to Articles 33, 67, 68(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights, Articles 24(1), and 25(1) and 25(2) of the Court’s Statute, and Articles 4, 15(1), 31 and 69 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court, DECIDES: 1. To convene the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the representatives of the victims, and the State of Panama to a private hearing to be held at the seat of the Inter-American Court on May 26, 2010, from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., during the Court’s eighty-seventh regular session, so that the Court may obtain information from the State on compliance with all the measures of reparation ordered in the judgment on preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs handed down in this case, and hear the corresponding observations of the Inter-American Commission and the representatives of the victims. 2. To require the Secretariat of the Court to notify this order to the State, the Inter-American Commission and the representatives of the victims. 4 The Rules of Procedure of the Court approved at its eighty-fifth regular session held from November 16 to 28, 2009.

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