## Revised Decision on the protection of privacy and method of publication

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**Canonical URL:** [Revised Decision on the protection of privacy and method of publication](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/imfat/revdec060806.pdf)

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### Scope of names and anonymity
- "The name of an Applicant (or Intervenor) shall appear in the title and text of the Judgment or Order unless, pursuant to Rule XXII, para. 4 of the Tribunal’s Rules of Procedure, the Tribunal has granted a request for anonymity 'where good cause has been shown for protecting the privacy of an individual.'"
- "The name of any other individual involved shall not appear where the Fund has so requested pursuant to Rule XXII, para. 2, and 'where good cause has been shown for protecting the privacy of an individual,' or where the Tribunal decides that a reference to a named person would be inappropriate."
- "The departments and divisions of the Fund shall be referred to by numerals unless specification is desirable for the comprehensibility of the Judgment or Order."

### Publication method and timing
- After the parties to a case and the Fund’s management have been informed of a Judgment or Order rendered by the Tribunal in that case, "the text of the Judgment or Order shall be published in the following manner."
- Publication steps:
  - "It shall be placed on the Fund’s internal website and the Registrar will notify the staff by electronic mail of the fact that that has been done."
  - "The Judgment or Order will also be placed on the Fund’s external website; however, on the external website, for the name of an Applicant (or Intervenor) initials may be substituted."

### Availability of hard copy and periodic volumes
- "The Registrar will continue to make the text of the Tribunal’s Judgments and Orders available in hard copy."
- "From time to time, a volume containing the Tribunal’s Judgments and Orders will be published."

### Supersession, notification, and administrative action
- "This decision supersedes the Tribunal’s 1997 Decision on the protection of privacy and method of publication."
- "It shall be notified to the Legal and Human Resources Departments of the Fund and to the staff of the Fund."

### Signatories and registry information
- Signed by:
  - Stephen M. Schwebel, President
  - Nisuke Ando, Associate Judge
  - Michel Gentot, Associate Judge
- Registrar: Celia Goldman
- Location and date: Washington, D.C.; June 8, 2006

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/imfat/revdec060806.pdf_