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• Report of the Secretary-General on 

credentials 

• Strategy, planning and reform 

• Resource management: 

Æ Human resource matters, including 

amendments to the Staff 

Regulations and Staff Rules 

Æ Recommendations of the External 

Auditor: Implementation action 

plan 

Æ Report on arrears of contributions 

and of advances to the Working 

Capital Fund and on the 

implementation of Article 61 of the 

IMO Convention 

Æ Budget considerations for 2012 and 

2013 

Æ Development of a long-term plan 

for the future financial 

sustainability of the Organization 

• Voluntary IMO Member State Audit 

Scheme 

• Consideration of the report of the 

Marine Environment Protection 

Committee 

• Report on the 34th Consultative 

Meeting of Contracting Parties to 

the London Convention 1972 and 

the 7th Meeting of Contracting 

Parties to the 1996 Protocol to the 

London Convention 

• Report on the 2012 Conference for the 

adoption of an agreement on the 

implementation of the 1993 

Protocol relating to the 1977 

Torremolinos Convention on the 

Safety of Fishing Vessels 

• IMO International Maritime Law 

Institute: Review of the IMLI Statute 

• Protection of vital shipping lanes 

• Periodic review of administrative 

requirements in mandatory IMO 

instruments 

• External relations: 

Æ Relations with the United Nations 

and the specialized agencies 

Æ Joint Inspection Unit 

Æ Relations with intergovernmental 

organizations 

Æ Relations with nongovernmental 

organizations 

Æ Day of the Seafarer 

Æ Report on World Maritime Day 

2014 

Æ IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery 

at Sea 

• Report on the status of the Convention 

and membership of the 

Organization 

• Report on the status of conventions 

and other multilateral instruments 

in respect of which the 

Organization performs functions 

• Contract of the Secretary-General 

• Substantive items for inclusion in the 

provisional agendas for the next 

two sessions of the Council 

• Place, date and duration of the next 

session of the Council 

• Supplementary agenda items, if any 

Members of the public may attend this 

meeting up to the seating capacity of the 

room. Access to the meeting requires 

that all attendees respond to the meeting 

coordinator not later than October 28, 

2014, 7 working days prior to the 

meeting. 

The meeting coordinator, LCDR 

Matthew Frazee, may be contacted by 

email at matthew.p.frazee@uscg.mil or 

by phone at (202) 372–1376. Responses 

made after October 28, 2014 might 

result in not being able to participate in 

the meeting. Please note that due to 

security considerations, two valid, 

government issued photo identifications 

must be presented to gain entrance to 

the Coast Guard Headquarters building. 

The Coast Guard Headquarters building 

is accessible by public transportation or 

taxi. Additional information regarding 

this and other IMO SHC public meetings 

may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo. 

In case of severe weather or other 

emergency in the Washington, DC area, 

attendees should check with the Office 

of Personnel Management at http://

www.opm.gov or (202) 606–1900 for the 

operating status of federal agencies. If 

federal agencies are closed, this meeting 

will not be rescheduled, but the 

Shipping Coordinating Committee will 

publish a separate Federal Register 

notice to announce an electronic docket 

to receive public comments. 

Dated: September 19, 2014. 

Marc Zlomek, 

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating 

Committee, Department of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8882] 

Shipping Coordinating Committee; 

Notice of Committee Meeting 

The Shipping Coordinating 

Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 

meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 

November 12, 2014, in Coast Guard 

Headquarters, Room 6i10–01–c, 

Washington, DC. The primary purpose 

of the meeting is to prepare for the 

ninety-fourth Session of the 

International Maritime Organization’s 

(IMO) Maritime Safety Committee to be 

held at the IMO Headquarters, United 

Kingdom, November 17–21, 2014. 

The agenda items to be considered 

include: 

• Adoption of the agenda; report on 

credentials 

• Decisions of other IMO bodies 

• Consideration and adoption of 

amendments to mandatory 

instruments 

• Measures to enhance maritime 

security 

• Goal-based new ship construction 

standards 

• Passenger ship safety 

• Human element, training and watch 

keeping (report of the first session of 

the Sub-Committee) 

• Ship systems and equipment (report 

of the first session of the SubCommittee) 

• Navigation, communications, search 

and rescue (report of the first session 

of the Sub-Committee) 

• Implementation of IMO instruments 

(report of the first session of the SubCommittee) 

• Carriage of cargoes and containers 

(urgent matters emanating from the 

first session of the Sub-Committee) 

• Capacity building for the 

implementation of new measures 

• Formal safety assessment, including 

general cargo ship safety 

• Piracy and armed robbery against 

ships 

• Implementation of instruments and 

related matters 

• Relations with other organizations 

• Review and reform of the 

Organization, including application of 

the Committee’s Guidelines 

• Work programme 

• Election of Chairman and ViceChairman for 2015 

• Any other business 

Members of the public may attend 

this meeting up to the seating capacity 

of the room. Upon request, members of 

the public may also participate via 

teleconference, up to the capacity of the 

teleconference phone line. The access 

number for this teleconference line will 

be posted online at http://

www.uscg.mil/imo/msc/default.asp at 

least 2 working days in advance. 

Physical access to the meeting, or 

participation via the teleconference line, 

requires that all attendees respond to 

the meeting coordinator not later than 

October 29, 2014, 10 working days prior 

to the meeting. The meeting 

coordinator, LCDR Matthew Frazee, may 

be contacted by email at 

matthew.p.frazee@uscg.mil or by phone 

at (202) 372–1376. Responses made after 

October 29, 2014 might result in not 

being able to participate in the meeting. 

Please note that due to security 

considerations, two valid, government 

issued photo identifications must be 

presented to gain entrance to the Coast 

Guard Headquarters building. The Coast 

Guard Headquarters building is 

accessible by public transportation or 

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taxi. Additional information regarding 

this and other IMO SHC public meetings 

may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo. 

In case of severe weather or other 

emergency in the Washington, DC area, 

attendees should check with the Office 

of Personnel Management at http://

www.opm.gov or (202) 606–1900 for the 

operating status of federal agencies. If 

federal agencies are closed, this meeting 

will not be rescheduled, but the 

Shipping Coordinating Committee will 

publish a separate Federal Register 

notice to announce an electronic docket 

to receive public comments. 

Dated: September 19, 2014. 

Marc Zlomek, 

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating 

Committee, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2014–22999 Filed 9–25–14; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket No. USTR–2014–0017] 

2014 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review 

of Notorious Markets: Request for 

Public Comments 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice of Request for Public 

Comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the United 

States Trade Representative (USTR) 

requests written comments from the 

public identifying Internet and physical 

markets based outside the United States 

that should be included in the 2014 

Notorious Markets List. In 2010, USTR 

began publishing the Notorious Markets 

List separately from the annual Special 

301 Report as an ‘‘Out-of-Cycle 

Review.’’ The Notorious Markets List 

(List) identifies online and physical 

marketplaces that reportedly engage in 

and facilitate substantial copyright 

piracy and trademark counterfeiting. 

DATES: Deadline: The deadline for 

interested parties to submit written 

comments is 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on 

October 24, 2014. Interested parties who 

wish to provide rebuttal or other 

information to be considered during the 

review may do so through this docket 

until 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on October 31, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: All written comments 

should be filed electronically via 

www.regulations.gov, Docket Number 

USTR–2014–0017, and be consistent 

with the requirements set forth below. 

When filing a submission, please 

include the phrase ‘‘2014 Out-of-Cycle 

Review of Notorious Markets’’ in the 

‘‘Type Comment’’ field. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Wilson, Director for Intellectual 

Property and Innovation, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative, at 

Special301@ustr.eop.gov. Information 

on the Special 301 Review, including 

the Notorious Markets List, is available 

at www.ustr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background 

The United States is concerned with 

trademark counterfeiting and copyright 

piracy on a commercial scale because 

they cause significant financial losses 

for rights holders, legitimate businesses, 

and governments, undermine critical 

U.S. comparative advantages in 

innovation and creativity to the 

detriment of American workers, and 

possibly pose significant risks to 

consumer health and safety as well as 

privacy and security. The List identifies 

select online and physical marketplaces 

that reportedly engage in or facilitate 

substantial copyright piracy and 

trademark counterfeiting. 

Beginning in 2006, USTR identified 

notorious markets in the annual Special 

301 Report. In 2010, pursuant to the 

Administration’s 2010 Joint Strategic 

Plan on Intellectual Property 

Enforcement, USTR announced that it 

would begin publishing the List as an 

Out-of-Cycle Review, separately from 

the annual Special 301 Report. USTR 

published the first such List in February 

2011. USTR develops the annual List 

based upon public comments solicited 

through the Federal Register and in 

consultation with other Federal agencies 

that serve on the Special 301 

Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff 

Committee. 

The United States encourages owners 

and operators of markets reportedly 

involved in piracy and counterfeiting to 

adopt business models that rely on the 

licensed distribution of legitimate 

content and products and to work with 

rights holders and enforcement officials 

to address infringement. We also 

encourage responsible government 

authorities to intensify their efforts to 

investigate reports of piracy and 

counterfeiting in such markets, and to 

pursue appropriate enforcement actions. 

The List does not purport to reflect 

findings of legal violations, nor does it 

reflect the United States Government’s 

analysis of the general intellectual 

property rights (IPR) protection and 

enforcement climate in the country or 

countries concerned. For an analysis of 

the IPR climate in particular countries, 

please refer to the annual Special 301 

Report, published each spring no later 

than 30 days after USTR submits the 

National Trade Estimate to Congress. 

2. Public Comments 

a. Written Comments 

USTR invites written comments from 

the public concerning examples of 

Internet and physical notorious markets, 

including foreign trade zones that 

allegedly facilitate substantial trademark 

counterfeiting and copyright piracy. 

Commenters are requested to support 

their nominations with the information 

listed in Section 2.b. 

b. Requirements for Comments 

To receive full consideration, written 

comments should be as detailed as 

possible. Comments must clearly 

identify the market and the reason or 

reasons why the commenter considers 

that the market should be included in 

the Notorious Markets List. 

Commenters are strongly encouraged 

to include the following information, as 

applicable: 

• If a physical market, the market’s 

name and location, e.g. common name, 

street address, neighborhood, shopping 

district, city, etc., and the identity of the 

principal owners/operators; 

• if an online market, the domain 

name, available registration information, 

and name and location of the hosting 

provider; 

• whether the physical or online 

market is owned, operated, or otherwise 

affiliated with a government entity; 

• types of counterfeit or pirated 

products or services sold, traded, 

distributed, or otherwise made available 

in the market; 

• volume of transactions in 

counterfeit or pirated goods or services 

or other indicia of a market’s scope, 

scale, or reach or relative significance in 

a given geographic area or with respect 

to a category of goods or services; if an 

online market, information on the 

volume and type of Internet traffic 

associated with the Web site, including 

number of visitors, number of page 

views, average time spent on the site by 

visitors, estimate of the number of 

infringing items sold or traded and 

number of files streamed, shared, 

seeded, leached, downloaded, 

uploaded, or otherwise distributed or 

reproduced, and global or country 

popularity rating (e.g., Alexa rank); 

• if an online market, revenue sources 

such as sales, subscriptions, donations, 

or advertising and the methods by 

which that revenue is collected; 

• estimates of economic harm to the 

rights holder resulting from the piracy 

or counterfeiting and a description of 

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