[Federal Register: December 18, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 243)]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 3830]

 
Advisory Committee on International Communications and 
Information Policy; Meeting Notice

    The Department of State is announcing the next meeting of its 
Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information 
Policy (ACICIP).
    The Committee provides a formal channel for regular consultation 
and coordination on major economic, social and legal issues and 
problems in international communications and information policy, 
especially as these issues and problems involve users of information 
and communications services, providers of such services, technology 
research and development, foreign industrial and regulatory policy, the 
activities of international organizations with regard to communications 
and information, and developing country interests.
    David Gross, Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S. Coordinator for 
International Communications and Information Policy, will attend the 
meeting together with others from the Office of Communications 
andInformation Policy at the Department of State. Items on the agenda 
will include communications policy issues, discussion regarding 
countries of particular interest to ACICIP, general discussion of the 
bilateral foreign consultation process, and differences between the US 
and EU approaches on internet service regulation. Mr. Gross also would 
like to solicit ideas from ACICIP on methods to improve communications 
between industry and the Department of State, as well as on specific 
issues of interest related to upcoming bilateral meetings 
withArgentina, Brazil, the European Commission, France, and the 
UnitedKingdom, as well as potential meetings elsewhere.
    This meeting will be held on Thursday, January 10, 2002, from 9:30 
a.m. to 12 p.m. in Room 1105 of the Main Building of the U.S. 
Department of State, located at 2201 ``C'' Street, NW., Washington, DC 
20520.
    Members of the public may attend these meetings up to the seating 
capacity of the room. While the meeting is open to the public, 
admittance to the Department of State building is only by means of a 
pre-arranged clearance list. In order to be placed on the pre-clearance 
list, please provide your name, title, company, social security number, 
date of birth, and citizenship to Pamela M. Bates at 
batespm2@state.gov> no later than 5 p.m. on Tuesday, January 8, 2002. 
All attendees for this meeting must use the 23rd Street entrance. One 
of the following valid ID's will be required for admittance: any U.S. 
driver's license with photo, a passport, or a U.S. government agency 
ID. Non-U.S. government attendees must be escorted by Department of 
State personnel at all times when in the building.
    For further information, please contact Pamela M. Bates, Executive 
Secretary of the Committee, at (202) 647-5820 orbatespm2@state.gov>.

    Dated: December 10, 2001.
Pamela M. Bates,
Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on International Communications 
and Information Policy, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 01-31027 Filed 12-17-01; 8:45 am]
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