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Premerger Notification; Antitrust Improvements Act Notification and Report Form
A Rule by the Federal Trade Commission on 07/06/2001
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- 07/06/2001
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- Federal Trade Commission
- Dates:
- This final rule is effective July 1, 2001.
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- 07/01/2001
- Document Type:
- Rule
- Document Citation:
- 66 FR 35541
- Page:
- 35541-35544 (4 pages)
- CFR:
- 16 CFR 801
- 16 CFR 802
- 16 CFR 803
- Document Number:
- 01-16932
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AGENCY:
Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION:
Final rule.
SUMMARY:
This final rule amends the Antitrust Improvements Act Notification and Report Form (“Form”) which must be completed and submitted by persons required to report mergers and acquisitions pursuant to section 7A of the Clayton Act, as added by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”). The telephone number for the Bureau of the Census appearing on the Instructions in the Interim Rules will be deleted as this telephone number is no longer referenced on the Bureau of the Census web page. Persons requiring information on NAICS should refer to the Census web page at www.census.gov. Otherwise, this final rule implements the Interim Rules as published on May 9, 2001.
DATE:
This final rule is effective July 1, 2001.
Start Further InfoFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marian R. Bruno, Assistant Director, or Alice M. Villavicencio, Compliance Specialist, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room 301, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580. Telephone (202) 326–3100.
End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental InformationSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Discussion of Comments
On May 9, 2001, the Commission published Interim Rules amending the Form, and Insurance Appendix contained in 16 CFR Part 803, and amending the Rules, 16 CFR Parts 801 and 802 (66 FR 23561). The Interim Rules solicited public comments regarding the effective date of July 1, 2001.
The Commission received three public comments. The first comment, dated May 25, 2001, was submitted by Nortel Networks, Inc. (Mary M. Cross and Monica L. Lester). This comment asserts that the July 1, 2001, effective date causes a burden for larger “calendar year” companies, such as Nortel, to comply with a midyear effective date and that a January 1, 2002 effective date is more efficient. The comment explains that the company will have difficulty in compiling data on the revenues generated by its products and in classifying its 1997 and 2000 revenues to the NAICS because Nortel operates various lines of businesses and reports revenue information on a calendar-year basis. It anticipates that other larger companies may have similar experiences during the transition. The second comment, dated June 7, 2001, was submitted by Emerson Electric Company (Richard J. Schlueter). This comment suggests that the Commission postpone the effective date, or in the alternative, that the Commission allow an unspecified grace period, permitting larger companies to submit revenue data using either the SIC or the NAICS while making the transition.
The third comment, dated May 16, 2001, was submitted by Taft, Stettinius, & Hollister LLP (Thomas C. Hill) and did not address the effective date of these amendments. Comment three recommends that the dollar threshold in Item 8 be raised. This comment will remain under consideration and may be addressed by future rulemaking.
The sparse number of comments leads the Commission to conclude that the vast majority of persons filing notification are able and ready to report revenue data using the NAICS. The Commission concludes that an effective date of July 1, 2001, remains appropriate.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The information required by the amended Form is substantially the same as the information elicited on the current Form. The only difference is that filing persons will be required to report revenue data using the NAICS instead of the SIC in Items 5, 7, and 8. The change in base year simply requires that filing persons use data from the “1997 Economic Census” rather than data from the “1992 Economic Census.” Start Printed Page 35542 The ministerial changes clarify or simplify existing practices.
The Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601–612, requires that the agency conduct an initial and final regulatory analysis of the anticipated economic impact of the proposed amendments on small businesses, except where the agency head certifies that the regulatory action will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. 5 U.S.C. 605. Because of the size of the transactions necessary to invoke a Hart-Scott-Rodino filing,[1] the premerger notification rules rarely, if ever, affect small businesses. The recent amendments to Section 7A of the Clayton Act and the Commission's implementing rule amendments were intended to reduce the burden of the premerger notification program by exempting all transactions valued at $50 million or less.
Furthermore, most federal statistical agencies have adopted the NAICS since 1997. Accordingly, many companies that currently file HSR notifications have submitted economic information to the Bureau of the Census using the NAICS codes since 1997. For these filing persons, reporting base year revenue data classified under the NAICS should present little difficulty. For persons that do not have base year revenue data coded under the NAICS, the delayed effective date of the amendments to the Form should have provided sufficient time to convert their SIC data to the NAICS format with minimal burden. Finally, potential filers have always been required to provide base year data from the most recent Economic Census since the inception of the Form in 1978.
In light of the foregoing, the Commission certifies that the amendments to the Form will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities within the meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601–612. Thus, neither an initial nor a final regulatory flexibility analysis of this revision is required. 5 U.S.C. 605. This document serves as the required notice of this certification to the Small Business Administration.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The Commission's revisions to the Form do not “substantive[ly] or material[ly] modify” the existing terms of the currently approved collection information (OMB Control Number 3084–0005) to necessitate OMB's further review and approval. See44 U.S.C. 3507(h)(3); 5 CFR 1320.5(g).
Start List of SubjectsList of Subjects in 16 CFR Parts 801, 802, and 803
- Antitrust
- Business and industry
- Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
Accordingly, for the reasons stated in the preamble, the Commission adopts as final the Interim Rule amending 16 CFR Parts 801, 802, and 803, which was published at 66 FR 23561, on May 9, 2001, with the following change:
End Amendment Part Start PartPART 803—TRANSMITTAL RULES
End Part Start Amendment Part1. The authority citation for part 803 continues to read as follows:
End Amendment Part Start AuthorityAuthority: 15 U.S.C. 18a(d).
End Authority Start Amendment Part2. Amend the Appendix to Part 803 by revising page I of the Instructions to the Antitrust Improvements Act Notification and Report Form for Certain Mergers and Acquisitions to read as follows:
End Amendment PartAppendix to Part 803
Start Printed Page 35543 Start Printed Page 35544Dated: Approved by the Commission on June 28, 2001.
By direction of the Commission.Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
Footnotes
1. As noted in the Commission's recent publication of interim rules amending the premerger notification rules, the increase in reporting threshold from $15 million to $50 million has significantly reduced the number of acquisitions affected by the premerger notification program. See 66 FR 8680, 8687 (February 2, 2001).
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