Dear Mesdames and Sirs, 

Please find below the Tribunal’s Procedural Order regarding the schedule of the proceeding. 

“The Tribunal here addresses: (a) the Respondent’s application to revise the current schedule for the Parties’ written pleadings in this arbitration (as established in the first procedural order of July 2012) for the purpose of addressing the Respondent’s request for bifurcation as regards jurisdictional issues and (b) the Claimants’ opposition to the Respondent’s application. 

The Tribunal has considered, in addition to the Respondent’s application of 21 September 2012, the letter dated 5 October 2012 from the Claimants, the letter dated 19 October 2012 from the Respondent and the letter dated 25 October 2012 from the Claimants.