[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 203 (Thursday, October 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65318-65319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-27216]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 7651]


U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private 
International Law (ACPIL)--Online Dispute Resolution Study Group 
Meeting (ODR)

    The Department of State, Office of Legal Adviser, Office of Private 
International Law ACPIL online dispute resolution (ODR) study group 
would like to give notice of a public meeting on Friday October 28 from 
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. The ACPIL ODR Study Group will meet to discuss 
the upcoming meeting of the UNCITRAL ODR Working Group that will take 
place November 14-18 in Vienna. The UNCITRAL ODR Working Group is 
charged with the development of legal instruments for resolving both 
business to business and business to consumer cross-border electronic 
commerce disputes. At the November meeting, the Working Group will 
continue to consider inter alia ODR procedural rules for resolution of 
cross-border electronic commerce disputes.
    For the report of the first two sessions of the UNCITRAL ODR 
Working Group (December 13-17, 2010 in Vienna (A/CN.9/716) and May 23-
27, 2011 in New York (A/CN.9/721)) please follow the following link: 
http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/commission/working_groups/3Online_Dispute_Resolution.html.
    We expect that a revised draft text of online procedural rules that 
will be considered at the upcoming UNCITRAL ODR Working Group session 
will be available on the same link before the meeting.
    Time and Place: The public meeting will take place at the Office of 
the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, Department 
of State, Washington, DC. Participants should appear by 9:45 a.m. at 
the C Street gate to Navy Hill, corner of C Street, NW., and 23rd 
Street, NW., at the gate to the Navy Hill compound. If you are unable 
to attend the public meeting and would like to participate from a 
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location, teleconferencing will be available.
    Public Participation: This study group meeting is open to the 
public, subject to the capacity of the meeting room. Access to the 
meeting building is controlled; persons wishing to attend should 
contact Tricia Smeltzer or Niesha Toms of the Department of State Legal 
Adviser's Office at [email protected] or [email protected] and 
provide your name, address, date of birth, citizenship, driver's 
license or passport number, e-mail address, and mailing address to get 
admission into the meeting. Persons who cannot attend but who wish to 
comment are welcome to do so by e-mail to Michael Dennis at 
[email protected]. A member of the public needing reasonable 
accommodation should advise those same contacts not later than October 
21, 2011. Requests made after that date will be considered, but might 
not be able to be fulfilled. If you are unable to attend the public 
meeting and you would like to participate by teleconferencing, please 
contact Tricia Smeltzer 202-776-8423 or Niesha Toms at 202-776-8420 to 
receive the conference call-in number and the relevant information.

    Dated: October 6, 2011.
Michael Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, Office of the 
Legal Adviser, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2011-27216 Filed 10-19-11; 8:45 am]
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