Special Procedures to Encourage and Facilitate Bona Fide Hedging by Agricultural Producers As Required by Section 4p of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000

摘要

The Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) of 2000 amended the Commodity Exchange Act (Act) to incorporate a new Section 4p that requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) to consider methods of facilitating increased access to futures and option markets by agricultural producers. Section 4p also requires the Commission to submit to Congress, within one year of the enactment of the CFMA, a report on the steps it has taken to implement the provisions of this section and on the activities of contract markets under this section.