[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 160 (Thursday, August 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 50218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20892]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--International Pharmaceutical Aerosol Consortium 
for Toxicology Testing of HFA-227 (IPACT-II)

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 15, 2000, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), International Pharmaceutical 
Aerosol Consortium for Toxicology Testing of HFA-227 (IPACT-II) has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership 
status. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the 
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Astra AB, a 
party to IPACT-II, changed its name to AstraZeneca AB, Sodertalje, 
SWEDEN; and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Hoechst 
Aktiengeselschaft, each a party to IPACT-II, changed their names to 
Aventis Pharma AG, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY as the result of a 
corporate merger between their respective holding companies. The 
membership interest of Fisons plc in IPACT-II also has been transferred 
to Aventis Pharma AG as a result of this merger.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and International Pharmaceutical Aerosol 
Consortium for Toxicology Testing of HFA-227 (IPACT-II) intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 21, 1991, International Pharmaceutical Aerosol 
Consortium for Toxicology Testing of HFA-227 (IPACT-II) filed its 
original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The 
Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register 
pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on April 2, 1991 (56 FR 13489).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 6, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 3, 1997 (62 FR 15939).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20892 Filed 8-16-00; 8:45 am]
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