[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 1987]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00472]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 9000]


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

    The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International 
Law, Department of State, hereby gives notice that the ACPIL ODR Study 
Group will hold a public meeting. The ACPIL ODR Study Group will meet 
to discuss the next session of the UNCITRAL ODR Working Group, 
scheduled for February 9-13, in New York. This is not a meeting of the 
full Advisory Committee.
    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 such as 
guidelines for online dispute resolution providers and arbitrators. For 
the reports of the first nine 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); Nov. 14-18, 2011, in Vienna (A/CN.9/739); May 
21-25, 2012, in New York (A/CN.9/744); November 5-9, 2012, in Vienna 
(A/CN.9/762): May 20-24, 2013, in New York (A/CN.9/769); November 18-
22, 2013, in Vienna (A/CN.9/795); March 24-28, 2014, in New York (A/
CN.9/801); and October 20-24, 2014, in Vienna (A/CN.9/827)--please 
follow the following link: http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/commission/working_groups/3Online_Dispute_Resolution.html. Documents relating to 
the upcoming session of the Working Group are available on the same 
link.
    Time and Place: The meeting of the ACPIL ODR Study Group will take 
place on Tuesday January 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT at 2430 E 
Street NW., South Building (SA 4) (Navy Hill), Room 356. Participants 
should arrive at Navy Hill before 9:45 a.m. for visitor screening. 
Participants will be met at the Navy Hill gate at 23rd and D Streets 
NW., and will be escorted to the South Building. Persons arriving later 
will need to make arrangements for entry using the contact information 
provided below. If you are unable to attend the public meeting and 
would like to participate from a remote location, teleconferencing will 
be available.
    Public Participation: This meeting is open to the public, subject 
to the capacity of the meeting room. Access to Navy Hill is strictly 
controlled. For preclearance purposes, those planning to attend in 
person are requested to send an email to [email protected] providing full 
name, address, date of birth, citizenship, driver's license or passport 
number, affiliation, and email address. This will greatly facilitate 
entry. A member of the public needing reasonable accommodation should 
provide an email requesting such accommodation to [email protected] no 
later than a week before the meeting. Requests made after that date 
will be considered, but might not be able to be fulfilled. If you would 
like to participate by telephone, please email [email protected] to obtain 
the call-in number and other information. 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 Security Records System of 
Records Notice (State-36) at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/103419.pdf for additional information.

    Dated: January 7, 2015.
Michael J. Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, U.S. Department 
of State.
[FR Doc. 2015-00472 Filed 1-13-15; 8:45 am]
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