Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 74 / Monday, April 20, 2009 / Notices 17985 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—DVD Copy Control 

Association 

Notice is hereby given that, on March 

6, 2009, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the 

National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), DVD Copy Control 

Association (‘‘DVD CCA’’) has filed 

written notifications simultaneously 

with the Attorney General and the 

Federal Trade Commission disclosing 

changes in its membership. 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, 

Fluendo S.A., Barcelona, SPAIN; 

Kenmec Mechanical Engineering Co., 

Ltd., Taipei, TAIWAN; Swank Motion 

Pictures, Inc., St. Louis, MO; and Tamul 

Multimedia Co., Ltd., AnYang-City, 

REPUBLIC OF KOREA have been added 

as parties to this venture. 

Also, AMLogic, Inc., San Jose, CA; 

Changzhou XingQui Electric Co., Ltd., 

Changzhou Jiangsu, PEOPLE’S 

REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Chunglam 

Digital Co., Ltd., Gyunggi-do, REPUBLIC 

OF KOREA; Columbia Digital Media, 

Inc., Kanagawa, JAPAN; Dailystar 

Technology Limited, Hong Kong, HONG 

KONG–CHINA; Digeo Interactive, LLCI, 

Palo Alto, CA; Express Luck Industrial, 

Ltd., Shatin, HONG KONG–CHINA; 

Guangdong Cosmic Digital Technology 

Co., Ltd., Guangdong, PEOPLE’S 

REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Hamg Shing 

Technology Corp., Chu Pei City, 

TAIWAN; Honest Technology Co., Ltd., 

Daejeon, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Intech 

Electronics (HK) Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, 

HONG KONG–CHINA; Le Hong Po 

Company Limited, Hong Kong, HONG 

KONG–CHINA; Microservice 

Tecnologia Digital S/A, Sao Paulo, 

BRAZIL; and Yung Fu Electrical 

Appliances Corp., Tianan City, 

TAIWAN have withdrawn as parties to 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 DVD CCA 

intends to file additional written 

notifications disclosing all changes in 

membership. 

On April 11, 2001, DVD CCA 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 August 3, 2001 (66 FR 40727). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on December 5, 2008. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on January 21, 2009 (74 FR 3640). 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–8821 Filed 4–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection Comment Request; 

Prohibited Transaction Class 

Exemption 2002–12, Cross-Trades of 

Securities by Index and Model-Driven 

Funds 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a preclearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

95). This program helps to ensure that 

respondents can provide the requested 

data in the desired format, that the 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) on the public is minimized, 

that the public can understand the 

Department’s collection instruments, 

and that the Department can properly 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements on respondents. 

Currently, the Employee Benefits 

Security Administration (EBSA) is 

soliciting comments on a proposed 

extension of the information collection 

provisions of Prohibited Transaction 

Class Exemption 2002–12, Cross-Trades 

of Securities by Index and Model-Driven 

Funds. A copy of the information 

collection request (ICR) can be obtained 

by contacting the individual shown in 

the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before June 19, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to G. Christopher Cosby, Office of Policy 

and Research, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room N–5718, 

Washington, DC 20210, (202) 693–8410, 

FAX (202) 219–4745 (These are not tollfree numbers.). Comments may also be 

submitted electronically to the 

following Internet e-mail address: 

ebsa.opr@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

PTE 2002–12 exempts certain 

transactions that would be prohibited 

under the Employee Retirement Income 

Security Act of 1974 (the Act or ERISA) 

and the Federal Employees’ Retirement 

System Act (FERSA), and provides relief 

from certain sanctions of the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). The 

exemption permits cross-trades of 

securities among Index and ModelDriven Funds (Funds) managed by 

managers (Managers), and among such 

Funds and certain large accounts (Large 

Accounts) that engage such Managers to 

carry out a specific portfolio 

restructuring program or to otherwise 

act as a ‘‘trading adviser’’ for such a 

program. By removing existing barriers 

to these types of transactions, the 

exemption increases the incidences of 

cross-trading, thereby lowering the 

transaction costs to plans in a number 

of ways from what they would be 

otherwise. 

In order for the Department to grant 

an exemption for a transaction or class 

of transactions that would otherwise be 

prohibited under ERISA, the statute 

requires the Department to make a 

finding that the exemption is 

administratively feasible, in the interest 

of the plan and its participants and 

beneficiaries, and protective of the 

rights of the participants and 

beneficiaries. To ensure that Managers 

have complied with the requirements of 

the exemption, the Department has 

included in the exemption certain 

recordkeeping and disclosure 

obligations that are designed to 

safeguard plan assets by periodically 

providing information to plan 

fiduciaries, who generally must be 

independent, about the cross-trading 

program. Initially, where plans are not 

invested in Funds, Managers must 

furnish information to plan fiduciaries 

about the cross-trading program, 

provide a statement that the Manager 

will have a potentially conflicting 

division of loyalties, and obtain written 

authorization from a plan fiduciary for 

a plan to participate in a cross-trading 

program. For plans that are currently 

invested in Funds, the Manager must 

provide annual notices to update the 


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