ARTICLE 11 PanelProcedures Unless the disputing State Parties otherwise agree, the Panel shall conduct its proceedings in accordance with the following rules of procedure: (a) the disputing State Parties shall have a right to at least one hearing before the panel as well as the opportunity to provide initial and rebuttal written submissions; (b) the Panel's hearings, deliberations and initial report, and all written submissions to and communications with the Panel shall be confidential; and (c) the disputing State Parties may be represented during the Panel procedures by legal representatives or other experts. ARTICLE 12 Procedures for Multiple Complaints 1. Where more than one State Party requests the establishment of a panel related to the same matter, a single panel may be established to examine these complaints taking into account the rights of all State Parties concerned. A single panel should be established to examine such complaints whenever feasible. 2. The single panel shall organize its examination and present its findings to the CMT in such a manner that the rights which the disputing State Parties would have enjoyed, had separate panels examined the complaints, are in no way impaired. If one of the disputing State Parties so requests, the panel shall submit separate reports on the dispute concerned.. The written submissions by each of the complaining State Parties shall be made available to the other complaining State Parties and each complaining State Parties shall have the right to be present when any one of the other complaining State Parties presents its views to the panel. 3. If more than one panel is established to examine the complaints related to the same matter, to the greatest extent possible, the same persons shall serve as panellists on each of the separate panels and the timetable for the panel process in such disputes shall be harmonised. ARTICLE 13 Third Party Participation A State Party that is not a disputing State Party having a substantial trade interest in a matter before a panel and having notified its interest in·writing to the CMT, through the Registrar of the Tribunal, shall have an opportunity to attend all hearings, to make written and oral submissions to the panel and to receive the writt!3n submissions of the disputing State Parties. 27