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[p.319]
The International Court of Justice,
Composed as above,
After deliberation,
Having regard to Articles 40 and 48 of the Statute of the Court and to
Articles 39, 40, 44 and 46 of the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the joint notification, dated 2 July 1993 and received in
the Registry the same day, whereby the Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary
to the Netherlands and the Chargé d'affaires of the Slovak Republic to the
Netherlands transmitted to the Registrar an original copy of a Special
Agreement between those States, signed and ratified at Brussels on 7 April
1993 and 28 June 1993 respectively,
Makes the following Order:
Whereas the said Special Agreement recites, inter alia, that differences had
arisen between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and the Republic of
Hungary, regarding the implementation and the termination of the Treaty on
the Construction and Operation of the Gabchkovo-Nagymaros Barrage System,
signed in Budapest on 16 September 1977, [p 320] and on the construction and
operation of the "provisional solution", and that the Slovak Republic is the
sole successor State of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in respect of
rights and obligations relating to the Gabchkovo-Nagymaros Project;
Whereas by the Special Agreement the Parties submit the questions there
defined to the Court for decision, and request the Court also to determine
"the legal consequences, including the rights and obligations for the
Parties, arising from its Judgment" on those questions;
Whereas in accordance with Article 40, paragraph 3, of the Rules of Court
the Republic of Hungary and the Slovak Republic have informed the Court of
the appointment of Mr. Janos Martonyi and Mr. Peter Tomka, respectively, as
Agents;
Whereas Article 3, paragraph 2, of the Special Agreement provides that the
Parties request the Court to order that written proceedings should consist
of:
(a) a Memorial presented by each of the Parties not later than ten months
after the date of notification of the Special Agreement to the Registrar of
the Court;
(b) a Counter-Memorial presented by each of the Parties not later than seven
months after the date on which each has received the certified copy of the
Memorial of the other Party;
(c) a Reply presented by each of the Parties within such time-limits as the
Court may order;
and that the Court may request additional written pleadings by the Parties
if it so determines,
Fixes as follows the time-limits for the initial pleadings in the case:
2 May 1994 for the filing by each of the Parties of a Memorial;
5 December 1994 for the filing by each of the Parties of a Counter-Memorial;
and
Reserves the subsequent procedure for further decision.
Done in English and in French, the English text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this fourteenth day of July, one thousand nine
hundred and ninety-three, in three copies, one of which will be placed in
the archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of
the Republic of Hungary and the Government of the Slovak Republic,
respectively.
(Signed) R. Y. Jennings,
President.
(Signed) Eduardo Valencia-Ospina,
Registrar. |
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