WHEREAS, on 14 April 2014, the Tribunal issued Procedural Order No. 8 in the present arbitration, which addressed the manner in which the Respondent’s preliminary objections would be heard, in a preliminary phase of the proceedings or joined to the merits; 

WHEREAS, on 11 May 2014, the Parties proposed an agreed timetable for the Tribunal’s consideration and approval (“Timetable”); and whereas on 16 May 2014 the Tribunal adopted that Timetable, with certain modification, in the form of Procedural Order No. 9; 

WHEREAS, on 15 August 2014, the Respondent informed the Tribunal that the Parties had agreed to exchange privilege logs listing any documents that a Party wished to withhold on grounds of legal impediment or privilege or special political or institutional sensitivity; whereas the Respondent informed the Tribunal that the Parties had failed to reach agreement on a timetable for the exchange of such privilege logs; and whereas the Respondent proposed a timetable for the Tribunal’s consideration;