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From:martin.rosell@enron.com
To:scott.sefton@enron.com
Subject:FYI - New Nordic Financial Power Documentation
Cc:mark.haedicke@enron.com, mark.taylor@enron.com
Bcc:mark.haedicke@enron.com, mark.taylor@enron.com
Date:Fri, 28 May 1999 12:12:00 -0700 (PDT)

As part of the newly started revision of the NPTA terms, a group of some 16
people meet in Stockholm yesterday for a half-day session at the offices of
the Swedish SE Bank. Since only half of the attendees were lawyers, and just
the SE Bank attorney attending the meeting and myself have any greater
experience from derivatives documentation and trading, the discussion was
initially somewhat unstructured but gradually got on track; and I think I
actually managed quite well in stiring the process towards a decent result.
Minutes was taken and will be circulated in about a week. In brief the
following was agreed:

An new Nordic financial power trading master is to be created. This document
shall be in English and be Anglo-American styled and contain all customary
provisions and a schedule (plus proposed collateral arrangements and, if
possible, a short Users Guide). The intention is not to reinvent the wheel
but rather to collect and seek inspiration from existing derivatives
documentation in different markets. I suggested that a law firm should be
assigned to prepare the new doc., but the meeting rather thought that the
initial work should be done by a working group (including Enron, the SE Bank,
Eastern Energy, National Power, Sydkraft and Statkraft) and that legal
opinions should be obtained in due course as to the enforceability of the new
documentation in different jurisdictions. The governing law issue was the
issue mostly discussed and it was agreed that this matter supposedly had to
be left to the option of the contracting parties. The idea is to have the
Nordic Power Traders' Association promote the new documentation,thereby
obtaining wide acceptance for it in the market place.

Since Enron is the only party in the formed working group experienced in both
derivatives and commodities, this may be a chance for the company, if it
desires, to take the initiative and promote, for instance, something in line
with the ECT Houston Industrial Master. The new doc. is thought to serve as
a standard doc. for players that is unwilling, or unable, to use the ISDA
documentation. I'll keep you posted on the progress and please let me have
your viewpoints.

Martin