[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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