SEC Open Meeting Agenda
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 10:00 a.m.

Agenda as of the morning of March 10, 2004. Note that Open Meeting agendas are subject to last-minute changes.

Item 1:	First-Time Application of International Financial Reporting Standards Office:  Division of Corporation Finance Staff:  Paul Dudek, Michael Coco
Item 2:	Additional Form 8-K Disclosure Requirements and Acceleration of Filing Date Office:  Division of Corporation Finance Staff:  Paula Dubberly, Elizabeth Murphy, Julie Bell
Item 3:	Disclosure Regarding Portfolio Managers of Registered Management Investment Companies Office:  Division of Investment Management Staff:  Susan Nash, Paul Cellupica, Sanjay Lamba

Item 1: First-Time Application of International Financial Reporting Standards

The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to Form 20-F that would allow an eligible foreign private issuer that adopts International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as its basis of accounting for the first time for any financial year beginning no later than January 1, 2007 to file two years, rather than three years, of financial statements in a registration statement or annual report filed for the year in which it first adopts IFRS, with appropriate related disclosure. In addition, the amendments would require all first-time adopters of IFRS to include certain information.

For further information please contact Michael Coco, Division of Corporation Finance, at (202) 942-2990.

Item 2: Additional Form 8-K Disclosure Requirements and Acceleration of Filing Date

The Commission will consider whether to adopt amendments to Form 8-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to add several new disclosure items, amend certain of the existing Form 8-K disclosure items and shorten the Form 8-K filing deadline. The amendments further the goals of Section 409 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which requires public companies to disclose "on a rapid and current basis" material information regarding changes in their financial condition or operations as the Commission, by rule, determines to be necessary or useful for the protection of investors and in the public interest.

For further information, please contact Julie A. Bell, Division of Corporation Finance, at (202) 942-2906.

Item 3: Disclosure Regarding Portfolio Managers of Registered Management Investment Companies

The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to Forms N-1A, N-2, and N-3 under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, and amendments to Form N-CSR under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, regarding the disclosure provided by registered management investment companies about their portfolio managers. The proposals would extend the existing requirement that a registered management investment company provide basic information in its prospectus regarding its portfolio managers to members of management teams. The proposals would also require a registered management investment company to disclose additional information about its portfolio managers in its Statement of Additional Information, including other investment companies and accounts they manage, compensation structure, and securities ownership in investment companies and accounts they manage.

For further information, please contact Sanjay Lamba, Division of Investment Management, at (202) 942-7926.