[Federal Register: April 27, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 80)]
[Notices]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION


Global Markets Advisory Committee Meeting

    This is to give notice, pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2. Sec. 10(a), that the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee will
conduct a public meeting on May 12, 1999, in the first floor hearing
room (Room 1000) of the Commission's Washington, D.C. headquarters,
Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20581.
The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. and last until 5:00 p.m. The agenda
will consist of the following:

Agenda

    1. Introductory Remarks by Commission Barbara Pedersen Holum,
Chairman, Global Markets Advisory Committee.
    2. Discussion of the Future Industry Association's proposed rules
governing access to automated boards of trade.
    3. Discussion of a proposal for regulatory parity for trading on
domestic and foreign electronic terminals.
    4. Discussion of a proposal to withdraw the Commission's proposed
rules governing access to automated boards of trade and to lift the
moratorium on consideration of no-action requests for placement of
foreign terminals in the United States.
    The Advisory Committee was created by the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission for the purpose of receiving advice and recommendations on
the myriad of complex and novel issues raised by the ever-increasing
globalization of futures markets. The purposes and objectives of the
Global Markets Advisory Committee are more fully set forth in the
Charter of the Advisory Committee.
    The meeting is open to the public. The Chairman of the Advisory
Committee, Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum, is empowered to conduct
the meeting in a fashion that will, in her judgment, facilitate the
orderly conduct of business. Any member of the public who wishes to
file a written statement with the Advisory

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Committee should mail a copy of the statement to the attention of: The
Global Markets Advisory Commission, c/o Commissioner Barbara Pedersen
Holum, Washingon, D.C. 20581, before the meeting. Members of the public
who wish to make oral statements should also inform Commissioner Holum
in writing at the foregoing address at least three business days before
the meeting. Reasonable provision will be made, if time permits, for an
oral presentation of no more than five minutes each in duration.

    Issued by the Commission in Washington, D.C. on April 22, 1999.
Jean A. Webb,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 99-10549 Filed 4-26-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6351-01-M

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