EFTA Document EFTA01393149

JANUARY 2004 SUPPLEMENT This supplement supersedes and replaces the November 7995 Supplement to, and amends specified portions of, Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options (the "Booklet). To pemat greater flexibility in the methods used for assigning options exercises. the Booklet is amended by replacing the first two paragraphs following the cap- tion "Assignment" in Chapter VIII of the Booklet with the following: OCC follows established procedures for assigning exercise