-2457(14) On May 19, 1998, the Executive Vice President of the Foreign Investment Committee met with Marcel Claude Reyes and Deputy Arturo Longton Guerrero.24 The Vice President handed them “a sheet with the name of the investor, the company name, and the amount of capital he had asked to import into the country”25 when the project was approved, the companies involved, the investments made to date, the type of project and its location.26 57(15) On May 19, 1998, the Executive Vice President of the Foreign Investment Committee sent Marcel Claude Reyes a one-page letter, via facsimile, in which he stated that “with regard to our conversation, the figures provided correspond only to capital, which [was] the only item executed. The Project [was] authorized to import ‘associated credits’ of US$102,000,000, but ha[d] not availed itself of this authorization[, and the authorized capital] amount[ed] to US$78,500,000.” 27 57(16) On June 3 and July 2, 1998, Marcel Claude Reyes sent two letters to the Executive Vice President of the Foreign Investment Committee, in which he reiterated his request for information, based on “the obligation of transparency to which State agents are subject and the right of access to public information established in the State’s Constitution and in the international treaties signed and ratified by Chile.” In addition, Mr. Claude Reyes indicated in these letters that he had “not received an answer from the Foreign Investment Committee to his request,” and made no comment on the information that had been provided (supra para. 57(14) and 57(15)).28 57(17) The Vice President of the Foreign Investment Committee did not adopt a written decision justifying the refusal to provide the information requested in sections 3, 6 and 7 of the original request for information (supra para. 57(13)).29 57(18) On June 30, 2005, during the proceedings before the Inter-American Commission (supra para. 13), the State forwarded the Commission a copy of the foreign investment contracts and the assignment contracts relating to the “Río Condor” project.30 24 Cf. Testimony given by Marcel Claude Reyes before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006; testimony given by Eduardo Moyano Berríos before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006; and written statement made by the witness, Arturo Longton Guerrero of March 2006 (file on merits reparations, and costs,, volume III, folio 915). Cf. Testimony given by Marcel Claude Reyes before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006. 26 Cf. Written statement made by the witness, Liliana Guiditta Macchiavello Martini on March 10, 2006 (file on merits, volume III, folio 828); and testimony given by Eduardo Moyano Berríos before the InterAmerican Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006. 25 27 Cf. Copy of the facsimile letter of May 19, 1998, from the Executive Vice President of the Foreign Investment Committee to Marcel Claude Reyes (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 2, folio 48); and testimony given by Marcel Claude Reyes before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006. 28 Cf. Letters of June 3 and July 2, 1998, from Marcel Claude Reyes to the Executive Vice President of the Foreign Investment Committee (appendixes to the application, appendixes 1(2) and 1(3), folios 43 and 46); testimony given by Marcel Claude Reyes before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006; and testimony given by Eduardo Moyano Berríos before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006. 29 Cf. Testimony given by Marcel Claude Reyes before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006; testimony given by Eduardo Moyano Berríos before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 3, 2006; and brief of August 13, 1999, presented by the State of Chile during the proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (file before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, volume II, folios 908 to 910).