Regulations for Calculation of Administrative Fines for Serious Violations of Articles 9 and 15 of the Fair Trade Act Article 2

The serious violations stated in Paragraph 2, Article 40 of the Act refer to unlawful conduct that has seriously affected market competition and order.The competent authority shall take the following into consideration to determine whether market competition and order has been seriously affected as stated in the preceding paragraph:(1)The scope and extent of the market competition and order affected;(2)The duration of the damage to market competition and order;(3)The market status of the enterprise in violation and the structure of the corresponding market;(4)The total sales and profits obtained from the unlawful conduct during the violation period;(5)The type of concerted action – joint product or service price decision, or quantity, trading counterpart or trading area restriction. Conduct leading to one of the following circumstances may be deemed serious violations:(1)The total product or service sales achieved during the violation period by a monopolistic enterprise or one of the participating enterprises in the concerted action exceeds NT$100,000,000.(2)The total profits obtained from the unlawful conduct exceed the upper limit for administrative fines specified in Paragraph 1, Article 40 of the Act.
中文原文 違反公平交易法第九條及第十五條情節重大案件之裁處罰鍰計算辦法第2條
本法第四十條第二項所稱情節重大,指違法行為嚴重影響市場競爭秩序。
前項所定嚴重影響市場競爭秩序,由主管機關審酌下列事項後認定之:
一、違法行為影響競爭秩序之範圍及程度。
二、違法行為危害競爭秩序之持續時間。
三、違法事業之市場地位及所屬市場結構。
四、違法行為於違法期間之銷售金額及違法所得利益。
五、違法行為類型為共同決定商品或服務之價格,或限制數量、交易對象、交易地區等聯合行為。
有下列各款情形之一者,得認定為情節重大:
一、獨占事業或參與聯合行為之一事業,其違法行為於違法期間內所獲商品或服務銷售金額逾新臺幣一億元。
二、違法行為所得利益逾本法第四十條第一項所定罰鍰金額之上限。

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