External Meetings: Meeting with Not For Profit Energy End User Coalition

Commission staff met with representatives of the public sector, not for profit, energy industry to discuss issues related to implementation of Dodd-Frank.


 


Issues discussed were:


 


The structure and make up of the public energy sector and how it differed from the commercial, for-profit energy sector.


 


The significance of these differences and the structure of the industry as regards implementation of Dodd-Frank, particularly:


 


-Swap Dealer and Major Swap Participant definitions 
-End User Exemption provisions and the definition of hedging
-The forward exclusion to the swap definition in Dodd Frank
-MOUs required under Dodd-Frank between the CFTC and FERC
-Data issues particular to the reporting requirments of Dodd-Frank, and
-Position limits and large trader reporting under Dodd-Frank.