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192 NEWSLETTER 2020 The Guidance provides a detailed list of possible measures in this regard. It encourages the parties and the tribunals to communicate fre- quently to seek more efficient measures throughout the proceedings. The following list of possible measures is not exhaustive: 10 • Dispose of some of the claims or defences; • Resolve issues through partial awards, if more efficient; • Determine which issues can be decided without evidentiary hearings; • Determine issues that the parties can agree upon; • Conduct procedural conferences to determine the most rele- vant issues; • Consider whether dispositive issues can be decided without the document production phase; • Identify issues that can be decided without witness/expert statements or through written questions; • Determine if site visits/inspections can be replaced with vi- deo presentations or joint expert reports; • Consider tribunal appointed experts; • Use audioconference or videoconference; • Ask for an agreed chronology of facts, joint list of issues, etc.; • Consider how to limit the number/size of submissions; and • Consider whether the parties agree to opt-in the ICC Expedi- ted Rules. Service of Documents The ICC, through the Secretariat’s Communication of 17.03.2020, requested filings to be made electronically. Tribunals and parties were 10 Guidance, par. 8.