5 That […] it should institute the appropriate measures so that violations of the human rights of street children do not occur in the future. These measures should include their effective protection, particularly of minors, and the training and supervision of police agents so that they do not ill-treat street children. Lastly, the Commission decided “to transmit this report to the State of Guatemala and establish a period of two months from the transmittal of the report, for the State to implement the recommendations contained herein. During this period, the State is not at liberty to publish the report, as established in Article 50 of the Convention”. 31. On October 30, 1996, the Commission forwarded Report No. 33/96 to the State, requesting it to provide information on the measures taken to comply with the recommendations. 32. On December 30, 1996, the State requested an extension in order to present its reply to the Commission’s report. On December 31, 1996, the Commission informed the State that an extension had been granted until January 6, 1997. 33. On January 7, 1997, the Commission decided to refer the case to the InterAmerican Court. 34. On January 9, 1997, the State presented its reply to Report No. 33/96. On this occasion, Guatemala stated that it would send additional documentation in the coming days; however, this did not happen. Although it was time-barred, the Commission accepted the State’s reply. IV PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT 35. The Commission submitted the application to the Court on January 30, 1997. It in, it designated John Donaldson and Claudio Grossman as its Delegates, David J. Padilla and Elizabeth H. Abi-Mershed as its Lawyers and Ariel Dulitzky, Viviana Krsticevic, Alejandro Valencia Villa, Francisco Cox Vial and José Miguel Vivanco as assistants. 36. On February 12, 1997, the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”), informed the Commission that once “the application has been received in Spanish, it [would] proceed to formally notify it to the Government of Guatemala”, as it had been forwarded in English originally. 37. On March 4, 1997, the Commission sent by fax the application translated into Spanish in a version that contained several translation errors. 38. In a note of March 6, 1997, the Secretariat notified the application in English to the State and informed it that it had four months in which to present its answer, two months to file preliminary objections and one month to appoint an agent and a deputy agent; all these periods started from the date of notification of the application. In a communication of the same date, the State was invited to designate a Judge ad hoc. 39. In a further note of the same date, March 6, 1997, the Secretariat requested the Commission to send the original file processed by the Commission, and also the