Revised Guidelines for the Consideration of Communications duly mandated; b) Any person being heard by the Committee as a witness or as an expert; c) Any person whom the Committee may decide to invite under Section XI Paragraph 5(ii). ii. When it considers it in the interest of the proper conduct of a hearing, the Committee may limit the number of parties’ representatives or advisers who may appear. 4) Hearing of parties to the Communication i. The parties shall inform the Committee at least ten days before the date of the opening of the hearing of the names and functions of the persons who will appear on their behalf at the hearing. ii. The Chairperson or any member delegated by the Chairperson shall preside over the hearing, and shall verify the identity of any persons before he/she is heard. iii. Any member of the Committee may put questions to the parties or to the persons heard with the permission of the Chairperson. iv. Parties to the Communication or their representatives may, with the permission of the Chairperson, put questions to any person heard. v. During hearings, the Committee shall permit oral presentations by the parties on new or additional facts or arguments or in answer to any questions that it may have concerning all issues relating to the Communication. vi. During the hearing of a Communication in which amicus curiae brief has been filed, the Committee, where necessary, shall permit the author or the representative to address the Committee. 5) Hearing of witnesses, experts and other persons i. The Committee shall determine, at its own initiative, or at the request of one of the parties, to call independent experts and witnesses of the parties to the Communication or other persons whom it considers necessary to hear in a given case. A request to call a witness by one of the parties shall not be rejected unless the Committee has good reasons to believe that such a request constitutes an abuse of process. 14