3) Other admissibility requirements 66. The Applicants do not make any submission with respect to the Respondent's objection to the compatibility of the Application with the Constitutive Act and the Charter (Article 56(2), the Application being exclusively based on information disseminated by the mass media (Article 56(4 ), and the Application not being filed within reasonable time in accordance with Article 56(6) of the Charter. V. APPLICANTS REQUEST TO EXPUNGE RESPONDENT'S RESPONSE FROM THE PLEADINGS 67. The Applicants submit that the Response of the Respondent is time barred, having been submitted contrary to the provisions of Rule 37 of the Rules. Rule 37 provides that "The State Party against wh1ch an Application has been filed shall respond thereto within sixty (60) days provided that the Court may, if the need arises, grant an extension of time". 68. The Applicants claim that the Respondent's Response was filed on 11 March 2013 instead of 7 March 2013, and that the Respondent did not apply for leave for an extension of time. They ther~ ef on the Court to expunge this Response from the pleadings . _ _ _ __. --~~~~~- ~~ 22 ' ~~ @ / ~