6 14th of that same month and year, the State had informed the Court that it was sending those observations. 28. On June 20, 2002 the Court ordered the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin, the Commission, and the State to submit their final written arguments on reparations and legal costs no later than July 22, 2002. 29. On July 5 and 16, 2002 the Secretariat, under instructions from the President, requested the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin, the InterAmerican Commission, and the State to send certain documents and information, to facilitate adjudication. These were basically the birth certificates of certain victims or their next of kin, work certificates, medical certificates, reports on the legal minimum wage in force and the current bolívar to United States dollar exchange rate in Venezuela, life expectancy in that country, certificates on the situation of domestic administrative or judicial proceedings, including those of exhumation and identification of corpses buried in common graves, and details on modifications to Venezuelan penal legislation, both military and regular. 30. On July 17 and 19, 2002 the Commission requested an extension of the term to submit the evidence mentioned in the previous paragraph. On the 22d of that same month and year the Secretariat, under instructions from the President, granted the parties an extension until August 9, 2002 to supply the aforementioned evidence. 31. On July 22, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin and the State filed their final arguments on reparations, legal costs and expenses in the instant case, and the Commission did so the following day. 32. On July 26, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin filed a brief with several appendices pertaining to expenses allegedly incurred by the Center for Justice and International Law (hereinafter “CEJIL”) during processing of the instant case. 33. On August 2, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin filed documents pertaining to the evidence to facilitate adjudication, requested on July 5 and 16 of that same year (supra para. 29). On the 13th of that same month and year they filed several documents regarding that evidence, as well as documents pertaining to the alleged expenses of the Comité de Familiares de las Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero - Marzo de 1989 (hereinafter “COFAVIC”) during the reparations stage. 34. On August 12, 2002 the Commission filed a brief regarding the evidence to facilitate adjudication, requested on July 16 of that same year (supra para. 29) and also stated that it endorsed the evidence submitted by the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin in response to the July 5, 2002 request. 35. On August 13, 2002, the State presented part of the information required as evidence to facilitate adjudication, requested on July 5 and 16, 2002. IV EVIDENCE A) PROCEDURAL MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE EVIDENCE