Le Tribunal demeure libre de prendre en considération les actes ou documents nouveaux sur les quels les agents ou conseils des Parties appelleraient son attention. En ce cas, le Tribunal a le droit de requérir la production de ces actes ou documents, sauf l'obligation d'en donner connaissance à la

and discussion.

Preliminary examination consists in the communication by the respective agents to the members of the Tribunal and to the opposite party of all printed or written Acts and of all documents containing the arguments invoked in the case. This communication shall be made in the form and within the periods fixed by the Tribunal in accordance with Article XLIX.

Discussion consists in the oral development before the Tribunal of the arguments of the parties.

ARTICLE XL.

Every document produced by one party must be communicated to the other party.

ARTICLE XLI.

Preliminary exam

ination.

Discussion.

Exchange of docu

ments.

Discussions.

The discussions are under the direction of the President. They are only public if it be so Public. decided by the Tribunal, with the assent of the parties.

They are recorded in the procès- Record. verbaux drawn up by the Secretaries appointed by the President. These procès-verbaux alone have an authentic character.

ARTICLE XLII.

When the preliminary examina- Limiting discussions tion is concluded, the Tribunal has the right to refuse discussion of all fresh Acts or documents which one party may desire to submit to it without the consent of the other party.

ARTICLE XLIII.

The Tribunal is free to take into consideration fresh Acts or documents to which its attention may be drawn by the agents or counsel of the parties.

In this case, the Tribunal has the right to require the production of these Acts or documents, but is obliged to make them known to

New evidence.

The parties can reserve in the Right of revision. "Compromis" the right to demand the revision of the award.

In this case, and unless there Grounds for revision. be an agreement to the contrary, the demand must be addressed to the Tribunal which pronounced the award. It can only be made on the ground of the discovery of some new fact calculated to exercise a decisive influence on the award, and which, at the time the discussion was closed, was unknown to the Tribunal and to the