Their delay in telling the Justice Department about the case allowed a one-year time limit on appointing an independent counsel to lapse.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, have agreed to place a one-year time limit on the talks, these officials said.
The delay in notifying the Justice Department about the case allowed a one-year time limit on appointing an independent counsel to run out, the inspector general's report said.
By the time the agency got around to notifying the Justice Department, the one-year time limit for appointing an independent counsel had expired.
The one-year time limit to launch potential criminal proceedings relating to the 2015 general election was due to expire on 12 June.
While the details of the talks are not yet public, the one-year time limit is viewed as crucial because the Palestinians are leery of being drawn into an open-ended negotiation with Israel.
TIME LIMITS -- In Mayle v. Felix, No.04-563, the question is how the one-year time limit in the federal law governing habeas corpus petitions applies to a defendant's effort to add new claims to an existing petition.
In particular, the model allows for time limits in determining eligibility for receipt of the supplement, consistent with the one-year time limit in the experiment, allows individuals to receive the earnings supplement for up to three years while employed, and allows the earnings supplement to depend on the earnings received by eligible recipients.
(This includes the upcoming loss of £30 a week, as well as much less reported measures such as putting one-year "time limits" on 700,000 people's sickness benefits).
This study, limited to a single location and one year time interval, illustrates the potential of the method.
