[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23318-23319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-9330]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 7817]


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

    The Office of Private International Law, Office of the Legal 
Adviser, Department of State hereby gives notice that the ACPIL Online 
Dispute Resolution (ODR) Study Group will hold a public meeting on 
Friday May 4, 2012, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. EDT. The public meeting will 
take place at the main State Department building (Harry S Truman 
Building). The ACPIL ODR Study Group will meet to discuss the next 
session of the UNCITRAL ODR Working Group, scheduled for May 21 through 
May 25, 2012, in New York City.
    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. The Working 
Group is in the process of developing generic ODR procedural rules for 
resolution of cross-border electronic commerce disputes, along with 
separate legal instruments that may take the form of annexes on 
guidelines and minimum requirements for online dispute resolution 
providers and arbitrators, substantive legal principles for resolving 
disputes, and a cross-border enforcement mechanism.
    For the reports of the first three sessions of the UNCITRAL ODR 
Working Group--December 13-17, 2010, in Vienna (A/CN.9/716); May 23-27, 
2011, in New York ((A/CN.9/721); and Nov. 14-18, 2011, in Vienna (A/
CN.9/739) and documents relating to the upcoming session--please follow 
the following link: http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/commission/working_groups/3Online_Dispute_Resolution.html.
    Time and Place: The public meeting will take place in Room 6320 in 
the Harry S Truman Building, 2201 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20520. 
Participants should arrive by 12:30 p.m. at the C Street gate for 
visitor screening. If you are unable to attend the public

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meeting and would like to participate from a remote 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, email address, contact information and 
affiliation for admission into the meeting. Data from the public is 
requested pursuant to Public Law 99-399 (Omnibus Diplomatic Security 
and Antiterrorism Act of 1986), as amended; Public Law 107-56 (USA 
PATRIOT Act); and Executive Order 13356. The purpose of the collection 
is to validate the identity of individuals who enter Department 
facilities. The data will be entered into the Visitor Access Control 
System (VACS-D) database. Please see the Privacy Impact Assessment for 
VACS-D at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/100305.pdf for 
additional information. Persons who cannot attend but who wish to 
comment are welcome to do so by email to Michael Dennis at 
[email protected]. A member of the public needing reasonable 
accommodation should advise those same contacts not later than May 1. 
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: April 11, 2012.
Michael Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, Office of the 
Legal Adviser, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2012-9330 Filed 4-17-12; 8:45 am]
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