[Federal Register: August 15, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 158)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium, Inc. 
(``POSC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 17, 2003, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Petrotechnical Open Standards 
Consortium, Inc. (``POSC'') 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, ETL Solutions 
Limited, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, United Kingdom; and Trust 
Technical Services, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, have been added as 
parties to this venture.
    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 Petrotechnical Open Standards 
Consortium, Inc. (``POSC'') intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 14, 1991, Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium, Inc. 
(``POSC'') 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 February 7, 1991 (56 FR 
5021).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 17, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on January 22, 2003 (68 FR 3037).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-20823 Filed 8-14-03; 8:45 am]

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