Dear Members of the Tribunal: 

I write on behalf of the parties in response to the President’s electronic mail of 4 April 2014. 

Regarding the scheduling of the first meeting of the parties within 60 days, each party will comment on its availability for a first meeting in a separate communication. The parties have agreed that they should be granted at least two weeks to produce written submissions on outstanding issues, and that such submissions should be exchanged simultaneously at least five days prior to the hearing at which they will be addressed.

The parties are enclosing drafts of a proposed procedural order and a proposed confidentiality order. All text has been agreed between the parties unless in brackets; the brackets reflect which party has proposed the text that is not agreed. In formulating these proposed orders, the parties have identified the following main outstanding issues: