fyi.mergers.defs

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  "$type": "com.atproto.lexicon.schema",
  "defs": {
    "appeal": {
      "description": "A review of an ACCC determination outside the ACCC - a merits review in the Australian Competition Tribunal, or a judicial review in the Federal Court.",
      "properties": {
        "applicant": {
          "maxGraphemes": 100,
          "maxLength": 1000,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "caseNumber": {
          "description": "The forum's own matter number (e.g. \"ACT 1 of 2026\", \"NSD1310/2026\").",
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "caseUrl": {
          "format": "uri",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "filedOn": {
          "description": "Date the application was filed, as YYYY-MM-DD.",
          "maxLength": 10,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "forum": {
          "knownValues": [
            "australian-competition-tribunal",
            "federal-court-of-australia"
          ],
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "outcome": {
          "description": "Result once the review has concluded. Absent while it is on foot.",
          "maxGraphemes": 100,
          "maxLength": 1000,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "status": {
          "knownValues": [
            "current",
            "concluded"
          ],
          "maxLength": 32,
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "forum"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "determination": {
      "description": "A determination the ACCC made on a matter. A matter can carry more than one: a phase 1 referral to phase 2 is itself a determination, and is followed by a phase 2 determination, which a public benefit determination can follow in turn if the parties apply for one.",
      "properties": {
        "decidedOn": {
          "description": "Date of the determination as YYYY-MM-DD. A date rather than a timestamp because that is all the register publishes.",
          "maxLength": 10,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "documentUrl": {
          "description": "The determination document on the ACCC register.",
          "format": "uri",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "outcome": {
          "description": "Outcome as the register labels it. The register records a conditional clearance as a plain \"Approved\" and carries the conditions separately - see withConditions.",
          "knownValues": [
            "Approved",
            "Not approved",
            "Declined",
            "Not opposed",
            "Referred to phase 2"
          ],
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "phase": {
          "knownValues": [
            "Waiver application",
            "Phase 1 - initial assessment",
            "Phase 2 - detailed assessment",
            "Public benefit phase"
          ],
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "withConditions": {
          "description": "Whether the clearance carries conditions. Derived from the determination document, not a field the ACCC publishes.",
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "outcome"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "event": {
      "description": "One dated entry from the matter's \"Decisions and key events\" timeline.",
      "properties": {
        "date": {
          "description": "Date of the event as YYYY-MM-DD.",
          "maxLength": 10,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "documentUrl": {
          "description": "Document published with the event, on the ACCC register or the Australian Competition Tribunal's site.",
          "format": "uri",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "kind": {
          "description": "Classification applied by mergers.fyi, not by the ACCC.",
          "knownValues": [
            "notification",
            "questionnaire",
            "competition-concerns-notice",
            "phase-2-referral",
            "public-benefit-application",
            "public-benefit-assessment",
            "timeline-extension",
            "remedy-offer",
            "undertaking",
            "determination",
            "appeal",
            "other"
          ],
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "phase": {
          "description": "Phase the event falls in. A shorter vocabulary than a matter's phase, because it is the label the register puts on the timeline entry itself.",
          "knownValues": [
            "Waiver",
            "Phase 1",
            "Phase 2",
            "Public benefit"
          ],
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "title": {
          "maxGraphemes": 500,
          "maxLength": 5000,
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "date",
        "title"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "industry": {
      "description": "An ANZSIC 2006 code the ACCC tagged on the matter. Tagged at whatever level the ACCC chose - a division letter, or a 1-4 digit number - and occasionally mistyped on the register. Reproduced as published rather than corrected.",
      "properties": {
        "code": {
          "maxLength": 16,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "name": {
          "maxGraphemes": 100,
          "maxLength": 1000,
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "code"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "party": {
      "description": "A business named on a merger matter. Reproduced as the ACCC public register spells it, including its capitalisation.",
      "properties": {
        "identifier": {
          "description": "Company identifier exactly as published, spacing included (e.g. \"48 135 315 767\").",
          "maxLength": 64,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "identifierType": {
          "description": "Kind of company identifier carried in identifier. An open set: the register occasionally publishes others.",
          "knownValues": [
            "ABN",
            "ACN",
            "ARBN"
          ],
          "maxLength": 32,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "name": {
          "maxGraphemes": 300,
          "maxLength": 3000,
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "name"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "id": "fyi.mergers.defs",
  "lexicon": 1
}