PULP MILLS (JUDGMENT) 27 17. In accordance with Article 53, paragraph 2, of the Rules of Court, the Court decided, after ascertaining the views of the Parties, that copies of the pleadings and documents annexed would be made available to the public as from the opening of the oral proceedings. 18. By letter of 15 September 2009, Uruguay, referring to Article 56, paragraph 4, of the Rules of Court and to Practice Direction IXbis, communicated documents to the Court, forming part of publications readily available, on which it intended to rely during the oral proceedings. Argentina made no objection with regard to these documents. 19. By letter of 25 September 2009, the Argentine Government, referring to Article 56 of the Rules of Court and to Practice Direction IX, paragraph 2, sent new documents to the Registry which it wished to produce. By letter of 28 September 2009, the Government of Uruguay informed the Court that it was opposed to the production of these documents. It further indicated that if, nevertheless, the Court decided to admit the documents in question into the record of the case, it would present comments on them and submit documents in support of those comments. By letters dated 28 September 2009, the Registrar informed the Parties that the Court did not consider the production of the new documents submitted by the Argentine Government to be necessary within the meaning of Article 56, paragraph 2, of the Rules of Court, and that it had not moreover identified any exceptional circumstance (Practice Direction IX, paragraph 3) which justified their production at that stage of the proceedings. 20. Public hearings were held between 14 September 2009 and 2 October 2009, at which the Court heard the oral arguments and replies of : For Argentina : H.E. Ms Susana Ruiz Cerutti, Mr. Alain Pellet, Mr. Philippe Sands, Mr. Howard Wheater, Ms Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Mr. Marcelo Kohen, Mr. Alan Béraud, Mr. Juan Carlos Colombo, Mr. Daniel Müller. For Uruguay : H.E. Mr. Carlos Gianelli, Mr. Alan Boyle, Mr. Paul S. Reichler, Mr. Neil McCubbin, Mr. Stephen C. McCaffrey, Mr. Lawrence H. Martin, Mr. Luigi Condorelli. 21. At the hearings, Members of the Court put questions to the Parties, to which replies were given orally and in writing, in accordance with Article 61, paragraph 4, of the Rules of Court. Pursuant to Article 72 of the Rules of Court, one of the Parties submitted written comments on a written reply provided by the other and received after the closure of the oral proceedings. * 17