FW: [gnso-osc] OSC approval of amended Council procedures - 5.10 statements of interest - deadline 21 January 2011
Avri, thanks for the questions. I think most of them can be answered by clarifications. See below. Philip --------------------------- 5.2.3 I think we may need to differentiate full time employees from those who may be employees and not contractors, but who may have other employers as well. This may be a moot point if there are not part time employees, but there could be part timers. I thought we were speaking of fulltime employees when we discussed this in Cartagena. RESPONSE: lets revert to the original wording mentioning full time employees only. If in doubt we expect an SOI. 5.3.3 (2) I pay taxes in two countries. How do I handle this? Would I have to list both? Is that the intent? RESPONSE: tax is not the issue - its only a guide to country of residence. Suggest wording is "primary residence" 5.3.3 (4) Re: de minimus: Is this a global term ? Does it need to be defined somewhere? RESPONSE: Well its Latin. We are asking for a judgement call on behalf of the declaring party. ie the stock is so small a holding that there is no issue. 5.3.3 (5) a. what does it mean to be a representative? If someone is reporting information to someone (even for pay), but totally independent in terms of actions taken in the group, are they a representative? RESPONSE: Again a judgement call. If the person believes they represent then they do. b. Is it permitted to represent someone who wishes to remain unnamed? RESPONSE: I believe this is exactly what the policy seeks to avoid. 5.3.3. (6i) Does material interest have a global known definition? Do we need to define this somewhere. RESPONSE: again a judgement call - it will vary with the issue so in-house definitions will be tricky. also in Cartagena, I thought there had not been agreement to completely remove disclosure of interest. I though we had some sort of notion that there was a need for group participants to verbally indicate if an specific topic during a meeting brought up some specific issue of interest that was not immediately obvious from the SoI. I thought this mean there needed to be some paragraph indicating that there was an obligation if during a discussions some disclosure became necessary, it should be made at that point in time. RESPONSE: Indeed its still there under 5.3.1 and 5.3.4 Attachment:
GNSO Operating Procedures v2 Section 5 Revised by OSC 05 Dec 2010 clean with Gomes+ad editx.doc On 12 Jan 2011, at 04:01, Philip Sheppard wrote: > I find all of Chuck's suggested small edits and suggestions to be helpful > clarification to the intent of the group in Cartagena. > Please treat the version with Chuck's edits as the document for approval. > > Philip >
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