[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 41 (Friday, March 2, 2007)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 9434-9435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-3718]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

16 CFR Part 0


Rules of Practice

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Final rule amendments.

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SUMMARY: The Commission is updating the agency's description of its 
organization and activities in Part 0 of its Rules of Practice to 
include the Office of International Affairs.

DATES: Effective Date: March 2, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa M. Harrison, Attorney, Office of 
the General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-3204, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Commission is amending Part 0 of its 
Rules of Practice, 16 CFR Part 0, to include the Office of 
International Affairs.
    Rule 0.9, 16 CFR 0.9 (Organization structure). The Commission is 
revising this rule to include the Office of International Affairs.
    Rule 0.20, 16 CFR 0.20 (Office of International Affairs). The 
Commission is adding this rule describing the functions of the Office 
of International Affairs, which comprises international antitrust, 
international consumer protection, and international technical 
assistance. The Office of International Affairs is responsible for 
designing and implementing the Commission's international program, 
which supports and promotes the Commission's core maintaining 
competition and consumer protection missions.
    The Administrative Procedure Act does not require prior public 
notice and comment on these amendments because they relate solely to 
rules of agency organization, procedure or practice. 5 U.S.C. 
553(b)(A). For this reason, the Regulatory Flexibility Act also does 
not require an initial or final regulatory flexibility analysis. See 5 
U.S.C. 603, 604.

List of Subjects in 16 CFR Part 0

    Organization and functions (Government Agencies).

0
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Federal Trade Commission 
amends Title 16, chapter I, subchapter A, of the Code of Federal 
Regulations as follows:

SUBCHAPTER A--ORGANIZATION, PROCEDURES, AND RULES OF PRACTICE

PART 0--ORGANIZATION

0
1. The authority for part 0 remains as follows:

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1); 15 U.S.C. 46(g).

0
2. Revise Sec.  0.9 to read as follows:


Sec.  0.9  Organization structure.

    The Federal Trade Commission comprises the following principal 
units: Office of the Executive Director; Office of the General Counsel; 
Office of the Secretary; Office of the Inspector General; Office of the 
Administrative Law Judges; Office of International Affairs; Bureau of 
Competition; Bureau of Consumer Protection; Bureau of Economics; and 
the Regional Offices.

0
3. Add Sec.  0.20 to read as follows:


Sec.  0.20  Office of International Affairs.

    The Office of International Affairs (OIA) comprises international 
antitrust, international consumer protection, and international 
technical assistance. OIA is responsible for designing and implementing 
the Commission's international program, which provides support and 
advice to the Bureaus of Competition and Consumer Protection with 
regard to the international aspects of investigation and prosecution of 
unlawful conduct. OIA builds cooperative relationships between the 
Commission and foreign authorities; works closely with Bureau personnel 
to recommend agency priorities and policies and works, through 
bilateral relationships and multilateral organizations, to promote 
those policies internationally; and implements Commission policy and 
participation in the competition and consumer protection aspects of 
trade fora and negotiations, such as the U.S. inter-agency delegations 
negotiating bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. OIA works 
with authorized funding

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sources to develop and implement competition and consumer protection 
technical assistance programs.

    By direction of the Commission.
 Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-3718 Filed 3-1-07; 8:45 am]
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