---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 39.23"
title: "17"
number: "39.23"
heading: "Antitrust considerations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/39.23"
---

# §39.23. Antitrust considerations.


Unless necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of the Act, a derivatives clearing organization shall not adopt any rule or take any action that results in any unreasonable restraint of trade, or impose any material anticompetitive burden.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 2, 6(c), 7a-1, and 12a(5); 12 U.S.C. 5464; 15 U.S.C. 8325; Section 752 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub. L. 111-203, title VII, sec. 752, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1749.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 69430, Nov. 8, 2011, unless otherwise noted.