[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 71 (Friday, April 14, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 18070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07564]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 9961]


U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private 
International Law (ACPIL): Public Meeting on Micro-, Small-, and Medium 
Sized Enterprises

    The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International 
Law, Department of State, hereby gives notice that the Micro-, Small-, 
and Medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) study group of the Advisory 
Committee on Private International Law (ACPIL) will hold a public 
meeting via teleconference. The ACPIL UNCITRAL MSME Study Group will 
hold the teleconference meeting to discuss the next session of the 
UNCITRAL Working Group I-MSME scheduled for May 1-9 in New York. This 
is not a meeting of the full Advisory Committee.
    UNCITRAL has established a working group aimed at reducing the 
legal obstacles faced by MSMEs throughout their life cycle, and in 
particular those in developing countries. UNCITRAL further directed 
that the work should start with a focus on the legal issues surrounding 
the simplification of registration and incorporation. At its upcoming 
session, the UNCITRAL Working Group I-MSME will consider a draft 
legislative guide on key principles of business registration (UN Doc. 
A/CN.9/WG.I/WP.101) (from May 1-5) and a draft legislative guide on a 
simplified business entity (UN Doc. A/CN.9/WG.I/WP.99 and Add.1) (from 
May 8-9). The Working Group will also consider future work. At its 
first session, the Working Group ``acknowledged and welcomed the 
Commission's mandate relative to the establishment of an enabling legal 
environment to facilitate the life cycle of MSMEs, beginning with the 
implementation of simplified rules of registration, incorporation and 
operation of such enterprises, in addition to other topics such as 
financial inclusion, including mobile payments, access to credit, 
alternative dispute resolution and simplified insolvency rules.'' (UN 
Doc. A/CN.9/800, para 66). The draft texts, along with the reports of 
earlier sessions of the Working Group will be available at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working_groups/1MSME.html.
    Time and Place: The meeting of the ACPIL UNCITRAL MSME Study Group 
will take place on Friday April 28, from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT via 
teleconference.
    Public Participation: Those planning to participate should email 
[email protected] to obtain the call-in number.

Michael J. Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, Office of the 
Legal Adviser, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-07564 Filed 4-13-17; 8:45 am]
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