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UNITED NATIONS
UNITED
NATIONS



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Distr.
GENERAL

Security Council




S/AC.26/2002/26
3 October 2002



Original: ENGLISH




UNITED NATIONS
COMPENSATION COMMISSION
GOVERNING COUNCIL









REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE PANEL OF COMMISSIONERS
CONCERNING THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF F4 CLAIMS








S/AC.26/2002/26
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CONTENTS


Paragraphs
Page

Introductio n ....................................................................................
1-4
5
I.
OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND F4 INSTALMENT............
5-7
6
II.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY....................................................
8-14
6
A.
Article 16 reports ..........................................................
8
6
B.
Article 34 notifications ..................................................
9
6
C.
Procedural Order No. 1 .................................................
10-11
6
D.
Oral proceedings ...........................................................
12-14
7
III. LEGAL FRAMEWORK.........................................................
15-41
7
A.
Mandate of the Panel.....................................................
15-16
7
B.
Applicable law..............................................................
17-18
8
C.
Compensable losses or expenses....................................
19-28
8
D.
Expenses resulting from military operations ...................
29
10
E.
Salaries and other personnel expenses ............................
30
10
F.
Damage outside Kuwait or Iraq......................................
31
11
G.
Expenses for assistance to abate and prevent

environmental damage ..................................................
32-35
11
H.
Evidentiary requirements...............................................
36-41
12
IV. REVIEW OF THE SECOND F4 INSTALMENT CLAIMS...
42-47
13
V.
REGIONAL CLAIMS............................................................
48-210
13
A.
Iran..............................................................................
48-79
13
1.
Overview ............................................................
48-51
13
2.
Claim No. 5000283..............................................
52-58
14
3.
Claim No. 5000284..............................................
59-65
15
4.
Claim No. 5000285..............................................
66-72
16
5.
Claim No. 5000379..............................................
73-79
16
B.
Kuwait .........................................................................
80-151
17
1.
Overview ............................................................
80-84
17
2.
Claim No. 5000381 (Ministry of Defence:
ordnance removal and disposal) ............................
85-106
17
3.
Claim No. 5000381 (KOC: ordnance disposal) ......
107-117
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4.
Claim No. 5000381 (KOC: oil recovery) ...............
118-133
22
5.
Claim No. 5000381 (restoration and remediation of
the Ja'aidan Garden).............................................
134-151
24
C.
Saudi Arabia.................................................................
152-210
26
1.
Overview ............................................................
152-154
26
2.
Claim No. 5000380..............................................
155-166
26
3.
Claim No. 5000307..............................................
167-174
28
4.
Claim No. 5000308..............................................
175-183
29
5.
Claim No. 5000310..............................................
184-193
30
6.
Claim No. 5000311..............................................
194-198
31
7.
Claim No. 4002633..............................................
199-210
32
VI. NON-REGIONAL CLAIMS ASSISTANCE TO ABATE

AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE ..................
211-341
33
A.
Overview .....................................................................
211-212
33
B.
Australia ......................................................................
213-225
33
1.
Claim No. 5000048..............................................
213-219
33
2.
Claim No. 4000015..............................................
220-225
34
C.
Canada.........................................................................
226-239
34
1.
Claim No. 5000300..............................................
226-231
34
2.
Claim No. 5000328..............................................
232-239
35
D.
Germany ......................................................................
240-273
36
1.
Claim No. 5000011..............................................
240-248
36
2.
Claim No. 5000108..............................................
249-257
37
3.
Claim No. 5000280..............................................
258-264
37
4.
Claim No. 5000305..............................................
265-273
38
E.
Netherlands Claim No. 5000306 .................................
274-277
39
F.
United Kingdom Claim No. 5000075 ..........................
278-282
39
G.
United States ................................................................
283-341
40
1.
Overview ............................................................
283-285
40
2.
Claim No. 5000289..............................................
286-293
40
3.
Claim No. 5000290..............................................
294-296
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4.
Claim No. 5000291..............................................
297-303
42
5.
Claim No. 5000292..............................................
304-310
42
6.
Claim No. 5000293..............................................
311-317
43
7.
Claim No. 5000294..............................................
318-326
44
8.
Claim No. 5000295..............................................
327-331
45
9.
Claim No. 5000296..............................................
332-335
45
10. Claim No. 5000297..............................................
336-341
46
VII. RELATED ISSUES................................................................
342-347
47
A.
Currency exchange rate .................................................
342-344
47
B.
Interest.........................................................................
345-346
47
VIII. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS...............................
347
48
Notes ..............................................................................................

49



List of tables



Page

1.
Summary of second instalment claims .....................................

5
2.
Summary of recommended awards for second F4 instalment..


48
S/AC.26/2002/26
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Introduction
1.
The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (the Commission),
at its thirtieth session held from 14 to 16 December 1998, appointed the F4 Panel of Commissioners
(the Panel), composed of Messrs. Thomas A. Mensah (Chairman), José R. Allen and Peter H. Sand
to review claims for direct losses relating to environmental damage and depletion of natural resources
resulting from Iraqs invasion and occupation of Kuwait. This is the second report of the F4 Panel.
It contains the recommendations of the Panel to the Governing Council on the second instalment of
F4 claims (second F4 instalment), pursuant to article 38(e) of the Provisional Rules For Claims
Procedure (S/AC.26/1992/10) (the Rules).
2.
The second F4 instalment originally consisted of 31 claims by the Governments of Australia,
Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany), the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran), the
State of Kuwait (Kuwait), the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the Netherlands), the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia), the Republic of Turkey (Turkey), the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom), and the United States of America (the United
States) (collectively the Claimants). The claims were submitted to the Panel in accordance with
article 32 of the Rules on 25 April 2001.
3.
By Procedural Order No. 3 dated 31 December 2001, the Panel deferred the claim of Turkey to
a future instalment. As a result, there are 30 claims for review in this report, with a total amount
claimed of 872,760,534 United States dollars (USD).
4.
Table 1 summarizes the claims reviewed in this report. Eleven of these claims are from
countries in the Persian Gulf region (Regional Claimants) and 19 are from countries outside the
region (Non-regional Claimants). The amount claimed column shows the amount of
compensation sought by the Claimants (including amendments) expressed in United States dollars and