1. The 11 headings and statements in the CRA Report and as noted in the Log enclosed in the present Procedural Order No. 14 as Annex A shall not be made public.
2. The Parties are invited to go further with the procedure on the redactions to the Counter-Memorial as agreed on 28 June 2018.
a) Such text, if made public in its standalone basis, would not offer any benefit to the interested public, nor serve the transparency requirements of the Canada-Romania BIT. All the more, as such text could be open for interpretation, causing more confusion than clarity.
b) In this connection, Respondent is not correct that the redaction of such text would leave a reader without any understanding as to the basis of PO No. 14. PO No. 14 decides the confidentiality of certain statements in the CRA Report on the basis of PO No. 3 and the Tribunal's discretion.
c) Moreover, such text is linked to information that the Parties have already agreed to redact. To this extent, Claimants' concerns underlying the redaction of other information applies to this text as well.
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