Abbé Faria (), or Abbé (Abbot) José Custódio de Faria, (31 May 1756 20 September 1819), was a Goan Catholic monk who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Mesmer.

In the early 19th century, Abbé Faria introduced oriental hypnosis to Paris.

Article 8. Legal recognition of electronic communications

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) suggested that the wording be amended to read Where the applicable rules of law require .

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the Spanish translation of draft paragraph 6 might have created confusion.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the Commission would be recommending to the Sixth Committee that the draft convention be adopted by the General Assembly.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that draft article 17 reflected the wording of similar provisions in previous UNCITRAL instruments.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that an article on party autonomy was a customary provision in UNCITRAL instruments.

Article 6. Location of the parties

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the article designating the depositary was a standard provision that appeared in most United Nations conventions.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that paragraph 1 of draft article 10 was based on article 15 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the article on signature, ratification, acceptance or approval was also a standard provision in United Nations conventions.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that draft article 18 had initially provided only for declarations excluding matters from the scope of application of the convention.

The Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty was a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, which established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that paragraph 1 of draft paragraph 19 was intended to make clear that the provisions of the draft convention could be used to facilitate the operation of the instruments listed.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that similar procedures had long been in place in the paper based environment and, to his knowledge, no legal provisions specifically addressed such situations.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that there was no standard practice for fixing the period during which an UNCITRAL convention would remain open for signature or for specifying the number of ratifications that would be required for entry into force.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the opening words of draft article 6, paragraph 2, had been agreed upon by the Working Group for the reasons set out in document A CN.9 571, paragraph 100.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that draft article 9 had, by contrast, created some controversy, as evidenced by the number of comments on some of its paragraphs submitted by Governments.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the emphasis in draft article 2, paragraph 2, was on transferable documents, a term which, according to the Working Group, did not cover letters of credit and bank guarantees.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) explained that the abbreviation had been included so that readers would immediately make the connection between the term electronic data interchange , which might be unfamiliar, and its more commonly used abbreviation, EDI .

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the International Organization for Standardization's preferred definitions of data and information system were reproduced in the written comment submitted by the Government of Belarus (A CN.9 578 Add.3).

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that where the wording of definitions in draft article 4 was drawn from the definitions contained in the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, they had been approved by the Working Group with little discussion.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretary) said that the footnote to document A CN.9 577 was not intended to suggest that there should be a specific option to exclude paragraphs 4 and 5 of draft article 9.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that if the Commission intended implicit derogation to be permissible, the commentary could make that understanding clear but add that similar clauses in other instruments should not necessarily be interpreted in the same way.

The Torrijos Carter Treaties are two treaties signed by the United States and Panama in Washington, D.C., on September 7, 1977, which abrogated the Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty of 1903.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) suggested that the concern of the Japanese delegation might be addressed by a statement in the commentary to the effect that draft article 6, paragraph 2, would be applicable in the absence of a valid indication of a place of business. There would then be no need to change the text of the draft convention.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the Secretariat, before issuing the text of the draft convention as document A CN.9 577, had submitted the final clauses to the Treaty Section of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which was responsible for clearing the final clauses of any treaty negotiated by a United Nations body.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the text of draft article 7 was the result of a compromise within the Working Group, which had decided to recommend that requirements for the disclosure of identities, places of business or other information should be those established by the substantive law governing the contract.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that the issue of plurality of places of business might be adequately dealt with by paragraph 2 of draft article 6, which stipulated that if a party had more than one place of business, the place of business for the purposes of the draft convention was that which had the closest relationship to the relevant contract.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that draft article 16 bis had been included at the request of the delegations to the forty fourth session of the Working Group listed in footnote 7 to document A CN.9 577.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that nothing prevented the member States of an REIO that had not ratified the convention from declaring that they wished to exclude certain matters from the scope of the convention or that the rules of the REIO of which they were members prevailed over the rules of the convention.