[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62966-62967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21980]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 9712]


U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private 
International Law (ACPIL): Public Meeting on the Extension of the Cape 
Town Convention to Agricultural, Construction, and Mining Equipment

    The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International 
Law, Department of State, gives notice of a public meeting to discuss 
upcoming negotiations in UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the 
Unification of Private Law) to develop a new Protocol to the Cape Town 
Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. The public 
meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. 
until 1:00 p.m. EDT. This is not a meeting of the full Advisory 
Committee.
    The Cape Town Convention provides an international framework for 
the creation, registration, and enforcement of security interests in 
mobile equipment; separate Protocols are needed to apply the framework 
to specific types of equipment. The United States is a party to the 
Convention and to the first Protocol, which covers aircraft. UNIDROIT 
is now developing a new Protocol that will extend the Convention to 
cover agricultural, construction, and mining equipment. An UNIDROIT 
Study Group has developed a draft of the new Protocol that will serve 
as the basis for the negotiations in the Committee of Governmental 
Experts starting in March 2017. Documents for this project are 
available at http://www.unidroit.org/work-in-progress-studies/current-studies/mac-protocol.
    The purpose of the public meeting is to obtain the views of 
concerned stakeholders on the draft Protocol being developed by 
UNIDROIT. Those who cannot attend but wish to comment are welcome to do 
so by email to Tim Schnabel at [email protected].

TIME AND PLACE: The meeting will take place from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 
p.m. on October 25, 2016, in room 6421, Harry S Truman Building, 2201 C 
Street NW., Washington, DC 20520. Participants should plan to arrive at 
the C Street entrance by 9:30 a.m. for visitor screening and will be 
escorted to the conference room. If you are unable to attend in person 
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 the building is strictly 
controlled. For pre-clearance purposes, those planning to attend should 
email [email protected] providing full name, address, date of birth, 
citizenship, driver's license or passport number, and email address. 
This information will greatly facilitate entry into the building. A 
member of the public needing reasonable accommodation should email 
[email protected] not later than October 17, 2016. 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. We ask that each 
person who intends to participate by telephone notify us directly so 
that we may ensure that we have adequate dial-in capacity.
    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 https://foia.state.gov/_docs/SORN/State-36.pdf for additional information.


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    Dated: August 31, 2016.
Timothy R. Schnabel,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, Office of Legal 
Adviser, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2016-21980 Filed 9-12-16; 8:45 am]
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