[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 160 (Thursday, August 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50218-50219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20893]


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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 HFR-134a (IPACT-I)

    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 HFR-134a (IPACT-I) 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-I, changed its name to AstraZeneca AB, Sodertalje, 
SWEDEN; and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a party to 
IPACT-I, changed its name to Aventis Pharma AG, Frankfurt am Main, 
GERMANY as a result of a corporate merger involving its holding 
company. The membership interest of Fisons plc in IPACT-I also has been 
transferred to Aventis Pharma AG as a result of the 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-134a

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(IPACT-I) intends to file additional written notification disclosing 
all changes in membership.
    On August 7, 1990, International Pharmaceutical Aerosol Consortium 
for Toxicology Testing of HFA-134a (IPACT-I) 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 September 6, 1990 (55 FR 36710).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 3, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on February 19, 1998 (63 FR 8477).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20893 Filed 8-16-00; 8:45 am]
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