[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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