Statute for Adjustment Support in Response to Trade Liberalization Article 5

Each central competent authority in charge of the relevant industry may use its appropriated budget, scientific technology development funds or infrastructure funds to subsidize or purchase software and hardware facilities for research and development, inspection and testing, pilot production and mass production for the common use of the industry.Software and hardware facilities purchased with infrastructure funds under the preceding paragraph shall meet a certain threshold in scale, and fees for their use shall be collected and used for their maintenance.The competent authority after consultation with other relevant authorities shall establish regulations for determining the scope and scale threshold for the software and hardware facilities under the preceding paragraph, the criteria for collecting user fees, the operation and maintenance of such software and hardware, and other related matters.