Case No. IT-04-82-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Carmel Agius, Presiding

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
5 April 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Ljube BOSKOSKI
Johan TARCULOVSKI

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ORDER REGARDING COMPOSITION OF TRIAL CHAMBER AND DESIGNATING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE

The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte

The Accused:

Ljube Boskoski
Johan Tarculovski

I, Carmel Agius, Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber II of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("Tribunal");

NOTING the Indictment in the case The Prosecutor v. Ljube Boskoski and Johan Tarculovski, confirmed by Judge Patrick Robinson on 9 March 2005;

NOTING the Order issued by the President of the Tribunal dated 16 March 2005 assigning the case against Johan Tarculovski to Trial Chamber II;

NOTING that the initial appearance of the Accused Johan Tarculovski pursuant to Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal ("Rules") took place before me on 21 March 2005;

NOTING that the initial appearance of the Accused Ljube Boskoski pursuant to Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal ("Rules") took place before Judge Parker on 1 April 2005;

CONSIDERING Article 13quater(1)(d) of the Statute of the Tribunal ("Statute") enabling ad litem Judges of the Tribunal to adjudicate in pre-trial proceedings;

CONSIDERING Rule 65ter(A) of the Rules providing that the Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber shall "designate from among its members a Judge responsible for the pre-trial proceedings" ("pre-trial Judge");

NOTING the powers of a pre-trial Judge as set out in Rule 65ter of the Rules;

PURSUANT TO Article 13quater of the Statute and Rule 65ter of the Rules;

HEREBY ORDER that Trial Chamber II in the case The Prosecutor v. Ljube Boskoski and Johan Tarculovski shall be composed, for the purposes of pre-trial proceedings, as follows:

Judge Carmel Agius (Presiding)

Judge Hans Henrik Brydensholt

Judge Albin Eser;

AND DESIGNATE:

Judge Albin Eser as pre-trial Judge for this case.

Done in English and French, the English version being authoritative.

Dated this fifth day of April 2005,
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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Judge Carmel Agius
Presiding

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