2 I. PROCEEDINGS OF REPARATIONS BEFORE THE COURT .......................................... 3 A) Regarding the possibility of an international expert assessment ......................... 6 II. JURISDICTION................................................................................................. 7 III. EVIDENCE ..................................................................................................... 7 1. Assessment of documentary evidence ............................................................. 8 IV. REPARATIONS .............................................................................................. 11 A) Injured party .......................................................................................... 11 B) Just compensation demanded by Article 21 of the American Convention 12 1. Procedures, expert assessments, and regulations in the domestic and international proceedings .................................................................................................... 13 a) Relevant procedures in expropriation trial No. 1300-96 .............................. 13 b) Expert assessments offered during the processing before the Court ............. 15 c) Domestic regulations applicable in the expropriation proceedings ................. 18 d) International practice in cases of expropriation ......................................... 20 2. Determination of the just compensation by this Court ..................................... 22 a) Standards for the just compensation in international processes ................... 23 b) Assessment of the just balance between public and private interests ............ 28 c) Determination and payment of the just compensation ................................ 30 C) Compensation ......................................................................................... 30 1) Pecuniary damages ............................................................................... 30 a) Modalities of Payment of the just compensation and interests .............. 34 2) Non-pecuniary damages ........................................................................ 35 D) Measures of Restitution, Satisfaction and Guarantees of Non-repetition. . 36 1) Restitution......................................................................................... 36 2) Satisfaction ....................................................................................... 39 a) Publication of the Judgment .......................................................... 40 b) Request for a public act of acknowledgment of international responsibility… ...................................................................................................... 40 3) Guarantees of non-repetition................................................................ 40 a) Request of training measures for administrative and judicial officials ...................... 40 E) Costs and expenses ................................................................................. 41 F) Modality of compliance with payment ordered..................................................... 43 V. OPERATIVE PARAGRAPHS ............................................................................ 43 DISSENTING OPINIONS OF JUDGES: García-Sayán, Medina Quiroga, García Ramírez; Leonardo A. Franco, May Macaulay, and Rodríguez-Pinzón. I