3 as requested in an Order of the Court dated September 22, 2006 (supra Having seen 2). Consequently, the State was asked to file its report forthwith. 7. The July 24, 2007 note from the State attaching a photocopy of the March 14, 2007 edition of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Paraguay, in which the proven facts and operative paragraphs of the judgment in the Ricardo Canese case had been published. 8. The November 28, 2007 note from the Secretary of the Court, sent on instructions from the Court, reminding the State to proceed forthwith to submit its report on compliance with the judgment, since the deadline for submission had expired on November 30, 2006, according to the provisions of the September 22, 2006 Court Order (supra Having seen 2). 9. The decision delivered by the President of the Court on December 10, 2007 in which, exercising the powers of the Court to monitor compliance with its decisions, in consultation with the other Judges of the Court, and in accordance with Articles 67 and 68(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Convention"), he ordered the State, the representatives and the Inter-American Commission to attend a private hearing for the purpose of obtaining information from the State on its actions to comply with pending points of the judgment, and for receiving comments to this effect from the representatives and the Inter-American Commission. 10. The December 14, 2007 brief filed by the State, submitting its report on compliance with the judgment. In its report, the State advised that "on August 30, 2007, by Decree No. 10854, the Ministry of Finance was authorized to pay the amount of two hundred five million, seven hundred forty thousand Paraguayan guaraníes […] as compensation for [non]pecuniary damage[, and] legal costs and fees […]." Subsequently, the State submitted a copy of Decree No. 10854 and the bank slip by which this sum was deposited into the account of Mr. Ricardo Canese. 11. The February 4, 2008 private hearing on monitoring compliance with the judgment on merits, reparations and costs, in which the parties discussed the state of compliance with the judgment.1 At this hearing, the State supplied the Court with a 1 The Court, in accordance with Article 6(2) of the Rules of Procedure, conducted the hearing by means of a commission made up of the following judges: Judge Diego García-Sayán, Vice-president; Judge Sergio García Ramírez and Judge Rhadys Abreu Blondet. The following parties appeared at the hearing: a) for the Inter-American Commission: Santiago Canton, Delegate, and Juan Pablo Albán A. and Lilly Ching Soto, advisors; b) for the State of Paraguay: Darío Díaz Camaraza, Public Prosecutor of Paraguay; Arnaldo Frutos, Deputy Minister for Children; Julio Arriola, Business Attaché of the Republic of Paraguay to the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica; Edgar Fidias Taboada Ynsfrán, Director General of Human Rights for the Ministry of Justice and Labor; Francisco Barreiro Perrota, Human Rights Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nury Natalia Montiel Mallada, Human Rights Director for the Supreme Court; Silvio Ortega Rolón, Human Rights Director for the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare; Sonia Chávez Galeano, Chief of Compliance and Follow-up of Judgments, and Stella Azuaga, Director General of the National Service for Care of Juvenile Offenders; and c) for the representatives of the victims: Liliana Tojo, of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).