[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 31, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47559-47560]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22657]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice No. 3119]
Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International
Law (ACPIL), Study Group on Judgments; Meeting Notice
There will be a public meeting of the Study Group on Judgments of
the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International
Law on Friday, September 10, 1999, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room
1107 of the U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street, NW, Washington,
DC.
The purpose of the meeting is to consider legal issues related to
the project of the Hague Conference on Private International Law to
prepare a multilateral convention on jurisdiction and the recognition
and enforcement of foreign civil judgments. The meeting will assist the
Department of State to prepare the U.S. position for the fifth
negotiating session of the Hague Conference's Special Commission on
October 25-30, 1999.
The Study Group will consider a provisional draft of the convention
reported out of the fourth negotiating session in June 1999, and which
will be before the delegates to the fifth session in October 1999. The
provisional draft represents an important revision of the preliminary
text considered in June at the Hague.
Major issues that will be before the Study Group include: the
substantive scope of the convention, including whether it should apply
to government litigation, and maritime and nuclear litigation; the
scope of application to defendants; jurisdiction in contract, tort,
over branches, and based on minimum contacts; prohibited bases of
jurisdiction, including tag jurisdiction and general doing business
jurisdiction; concurrent filings in separate national courts; forum non
conveniens; provisional and protective measures; exceptions to
enforcement such as lack of fairness or impartiality in the judgment
court; and treatment of punitive, noncompensatory, and ``excessive''
damages.
It is expected that changes to the provisional draft convention
decided at the October negotiating session in the Hague will be
reported to a Diplomatic Conference in October 2000 charged with final
consideration and adoption of the convention.
Persons interested in the provisional draft convention or in
attending the
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September 10 Study Group meeting in Washington may request a copy of
the draft. Requests may be sent to Ms. Rosie Gonzales by fax at 202-
776-8482, by phone at 202-776-8420, by email to pildb@his.com>, or by
letter to the address below. Please include your request, name, phone
number, and mailing address. Alternatively, the text of the draft may
be found at the Hague Conference website: www.hcch.net/events/e/
events.html>.
The Study Group meeting is open to the public up to the capacity of
the meeting room. As access to the State Department building is
controlled, any person wishing to attend should provide Ms. Gonzales
with his or her name, social security number, and date of birth by no
later than Monday, September 6, to ensure admission to the building.
It would also be helpful to include affiliation, address, telefax
and telephone numbers, and email address for purposes of updating the
Department's contact list. Participants should be sure to use only the
23rd Street entrance of the State Department, between C and D Streets,
NW, where someone will be present to assist them. Due to revised
security procedures all participants must arrive prior to 10:30 a.m.,
and re-admission to the building may not be possible.
Those unable to attend but wishing to have their views considered
may send their views, attention Ms. Gonzales, to the above fax number
or email address, or to the following address: Office of the Assistant
Legal Adviser for Private International Law, Suite 203, South Building,
2430 E St., NW, Washington, DC 20037-2800.
Jeffrey D. Kovar,
Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law .
[FR Doc. 99-22657 Filed 8-30-99; 8:45 am]
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