A. Competence ratione personae, ratione materiae, ratione temporis, and ratione loci of the Inter-American Commission

A. Ratione personae, ratione materiae, ratione temporis, and ratione loci competence of the Commission

Different treatment could therefore be justified on the grounds of ratione personnae, ratione loci et ratione temporis.

A. The Commission’s Competence Ratione Personae, Ratione Materiae, and Ratione Temporis and Ratione Loci

Incompetency is material, ratione materia, or personal, ratione personae.

Consequently, the IACHR is competent ratione personae, ratione materiae, ratione temporis, and ratione loci’to examine the merits of the case.

Furthermore, the Spanish Government does not share the view that the Council may have had no competence ratione temporis to adopt Decision 97/803.

In these circumstances, the Court is bound to take these proceedings into account and cannot, therefore, reject this part of the application for lack of temporal jurisdiction.

Dismisses by eleven votes to six the preliminary objection ratione temporis;

Dismisses by eleven votes to six the preliminary objection ratione temporis;

Consequently, and in doubt, I was unable to dismiss the preliminary objection ratione temporis.

Consequently, and in doubt, I was unable to dismiss the preliminary objection ratione temporis.

The Government raised their objection ratione temporis for the first time in their observations before the Grand Chamber.

The Court notes that no plea of inadmissibility on account of lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis was made by the Government at the admissibility stage.

The Government raised two preliminary objections, one based on lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis and the other on failure to exhaust domestic remedies.