12. The President takes note that, at the current stage of the proceedings, it is not possible to determine which of the testimonies offered by the representatives will be received by the Court, or in what form they will be received. Under Article 50(1) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, this determination corresponds to the Court or to its President, once the parties have forwarded their final lists of the deponents they propose and the right to defense has been ensured, in the terms of Articles 45 to 49 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure. 13. Based on the foregoing considerations, the President finds admissible the presumed victims’ request to use the Court’s Legal Assistance Fund, in the understanding that it will be to cover expenditure relating to the adequate appearance of deponents in an eventual public hearings, as well as the presentation of testimony to the Court. In this regard, based on the resources currently available in the Assistance Fund, the presumed victims will be awarded the necessary financial assistance for the presentation, charged to the Fund, of a maximum of three testimonies, either by affidavit or at the public hearing. In addition, he finds it appropriate to postpone determination of the specific amount, purpose and object of the financial assistance that will be provided to the presumed victims until such time as this President, or the Court, rules on the admissibility and relevance of the statements of presumed victims and of the testimonial and expert evidence offered and, as appropriate, on the opening of the oral proceedings, in accordance with Article 50(1) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, in order to be certain which testimonies will be received by the Court, and also the way in which they will be presented (supra twelfth considering paragraph). THEREFORE: THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of his authority in relation to the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund of the Court and in accordance with Article 31 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure and Article 3 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court’s Legal Assistance Fund, DECIDES: 1. To declare admissible the request submitted by the presumed victims, through their representatives, to use the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, so that the necessary financial assistance will be granted for the presentation of a maximum of three testimonies, and that the specific amount, purpose and object of this assistance will be defined when deciding on the presentation of testimonial and expert evidence, and on the opening of the oral proceedings, in accordance with Article 50 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure, as established in the thirteenth considering paragraph of this order. 2. To require the Secretariat of the Court to notify this order to the representatives of the presumed victims, the State of Venezuela, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Diego García-Sayán President 4