Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Mercury Consortium, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on June 24, 2026, pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Mercury Consortium, Inc. (“Mercury Consortium”) 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, EN Plus, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND; DEKRA Certification BV, Gelderland, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS; and SwitchDin, Newcastle West, COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, GivEnergy Software Ltd., Newcastle-under-Lyme, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND; and Mixergy, Ltd., Cassington, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 Mercury Consortium intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On July 29, 2025, Mercury Consortium 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 18, 2025 (90 FR 40084).

The last notification was filed with the Department on April 7, 2026. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on July 22, 2026 (91 FR 46164).