CONSIDERING:

(A) The “List of issues to be addressed during the jurisdictional first phase of the proceedings” of 9 May 2008, containing 11 specific issues the Arbitral Tribunal requested the Parties to address during the jurisdictional phase;

(B) The amended procedural calendar of 9 May 2008, according to which the Respondent filed its Memorial on Jurisdiction on 8 August 2008 and the Claimants filed their Counter-Memorial on Jurisdiction on 7 November 2008;

(C) The Redfern Schedules and explanatory letters submitted by each Party in relation to remaining objections to the other Party’s requests for production of documents of 5 December 2008;

(D) That regardless of what the role and relevance of Task Force Argentina (“TFA”) are in the present proceeding, for the purposes of production of documents, TFA is a third party to this arbitration and not a claimant; therefore, the Claimants may not be ordered to produce documents which might be in TFA’s possession, custody or control, unless the Respondent can prove that the Claimants have immunized documents from discovery by depositing them with TFA or having TFA collect them;