6 occasions (supra tenth having seen paragraph). In this respect, the requests for information should be presented within the established time limits, so that the Court may evaluate it, together with the information provided by the State, and take the corresponding decision on provisional measures, as most appropriate in accordance with the circumstances of the case. 7. That the Inter-American Court is not a permanent Court, so that matters submitted to its consideration may only be decided when it is sitting. In the instant case, when the fifty-eighth regular session of the Court was held from February 17 to March 7, 2003, the Court did not have sufficient information to evaluate the request to lift the provisional measures, because the State, the representatives, and the Commission had not yet transmitted all the requested information. 8. That, on May 13, 2003, the State communicated to the Court its decision “to cease to provide the safety measures that it had been providing to the next of kin of Justo Victoriano Martínez Morales as of this date” (supra fourteenth having seen paragraph). 9. That provisional measures are exceptional in nature, are adopted in function of the needs for protection and, once adopted, must be maintained while the basic requirements mentioned in the second considering paragraph subsist. 10. That only the Court has the competence to decide on the continuance or lifting of a provisional measure. Consequently, the provisional measures that it adopts are fully in force and produce their effects until the Court orders that they be lifted. 11. That, in accordance with the information provided by Guatemala in the instant case, “Justo Victoriano Martínez Morales, Justo Víctor Martínez Morales or Justo Víctor Morales Martínez”, as indicated in the clarification about his name requested of the State, died on December 13, 2002, so that it is no longer necessary to maintain the provisional measures adopted in his favor. 12. That the Commission and the representatives of the beneficiaries of the measures declared that the circumstances of extreme gravity and urgency that justified the adoption of provisional measures in favor of the next of kin of Justo Victoriano Martínez Morales persist, so that the measures of protection adopted in favor of Floridalma Rosalina López Molina, Víctor Hansel Morales López, Edgar Ibal Martínez López and Sylvia Patricia Martínez López, must be maintained, because they are still at risk. THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of the authority conferred on it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Articles 25 and 29 of its Rules of Procedure,