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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SETTLEMENT OF INVESTMENT
DISPUTES

Gabriel Resources Ltd. and Gabriel Resources (Jersey) Ltd.

v.

Romania

(ICSID Case No. ARB/15/31)

PROCEDURAL ORDER NO. 4

Members of the Tribunal
Ms. Teresa Cheng SC, President of the Tribunal
Prof. Horacio A. Grigera Naón, Arbitrator
Prof. Zachary Douglas QC, Arbitrator

Secretary of the Tribunal
Ms. Sara Marzal Yetano

January 10, 2017

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Introduction

1. The Tribunal refers to:

• Claimants' letter of November 23, 2016 requesting the Tribunal to fix the procedural calendar and proposing certain adjustment to the timetable included as Annex A of Procedural Order No. 1 (“Claimants' Procedural Calendar Proposal”);
• Respondent's letter of November 28, 2016 objecting to Claimants' Procedural Calendar Proposal and submitting two alternative procedural calendars (“Respondent's Procedural Calendar Option 1” and “Respondent's Procedural Calendar Option 2”);
• Claimants' letter of December 5, 2016 submitting observations to Respondent's letter of November 28, 2016 and requesting an opportunity to respond to Respondent's December 12, 2016 letter; and
• Respondent's letter of December 12, 2016 submitting observations to Claimants' letter of December 5, 2016 and objecting to Claimants' request to be given an opportunity to respond to Respondent's December 12, 2016 letter.

2. Having reviewed and considered the Parties' arguments in the referred communications, has decided as follows:

Order

1. The Tribunal considers that it has been sufficiently briefed on this matter and therefore rejects Claimants's request to submit observations on Respondent's letter of Deceber 12, 2016.

2. The Tribunal adopts Respondent's Procedural Calendar Option 1 as the Procedural Calendar of this case, which is attached to this Procedural Order as Annex A.

3. Howerver, the Tribunal is mindful that delays in document production might impact upon Claimants' ability to prepare its Reply and would therefore be open to consider a prolongation of the Reply's deadline should the Claimants request it and the circumstances so require.

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On behalf of the Tribunal,

Ms. Teresa Cheng SC
President of the Tribunal
Date: January 10, 2017

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Annex A – Procedural Calendar

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