7 20. The Inter-American Commission appointed Oscar Luján-Fappiano, Carlos Ayala-Corao, and Claudio Grossman to act as its delegates, Christina M. Cerna as its attorney, and Verónica Reyna, Nelson Caucota, Jaime Castillo-Velasco, and Enrique Correa as its assistants. Pursuant to Article 22(2) of its Regulations, the Commission also informed the Court that the first two assistants would act for the original petitioners and the latter two as representatives of the alleged victims. 21. By note of July 31, 1997, after a preliminary review of the application by the President of the Court (hereinafter "the President") the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter "the Secretariat"), transmitted the application to the State and informed the State that it had the following deadlines: four months in which to submit its answer, one month to appoint an agent and alternate agent, and two months to interpose preliminary objections. All terms were to begin from the date of notification of the application. By communication of the same date, the State was invited to designate a judge ad hoc. 22. By means of communications of August 26 and 28, 1997, the Commission submitted a corrected version of the Spanish text of the application, and stated that it contained "corrections of minor errors, above all in style [and] should replace the earlier version which had been submitted to the Court on July 22, 1997." The corrected version was transmitted to the State on September 2, 1997. 23. On September 3, 1997, Peru informed the Court that it had designated Fernando Vidal-Ramírez as judge ad hoc. 24. On September 5, 1997, Peru designated Mario Cavagnaro-Basile as its agent and Walter Palomino-Cabezas as its alternate agent. 25. On September 22, 1997, the State asked the Court to indicate if it should "consider as valid" the new version of the application (supra 22) or if, to the contrary, it should maintain that dated July 22 of the same year. 26. On September 24, 1997, the Secretariat, following instructions from the President, informed Peru that in view of the request for clarification of the State and to insure the "transparency of the process," the President had decided to suspend the time limits to answer the application and interpose preliminary objections until the Commission presented clarifications of the corrections made to the original text of the application. 27. On October 1, 1997, Peru submitted its brief in which it raised the following preliminary objections. First Objection failure to exhaust the domestic remedies of Peru at the time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, pursuant to Article 37 of its Regulations, admitted for processing the complaint on behalf of Jaime Francisco Castillo-Petruzzi, María Concepción Pincheira-Sáez, Lautaro Enrique Mellado-Saavedra and Alejandro Astorga-Valdéz. Second Objection lack of competence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, first to consider the petition lodged by the Fundación de Ayuda Social de