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Decision refers to a complaint reviewed and a disposition made by the FTC’s Commissioners Meeting that the defendant is confirmed to violate the Fair Trade Act (the FTA) or the Supervisory Regulations Governing Multi-level Sales and will receive a decision document.
No-action decision refers to a complaint reviewed (or authorized persons in accordance with a precedent) and a disposition made by the FTC’s Commissioners Meeting that the defendant is confirmed not to violate the FTA or relevant regulation. Reasons for the no-action decision can be classified into following categories:
| (1) | Applicable to Article 46: cases subject to the regulation by Article 46, FTA. |
| (2) | Failing to meet substantive prerequisites: insufficient evidences, failing to meet substantive criteria; the defendant had taken corrective measure already, or in a minor case a settlement had already been reached between two sides. |
| (3) | Others: reasons may not be classified into the aforementioned items. |
| (1) | Correction program: cases for which no decision rulings will be made before a measure is taken to require related party’s correction of certain behavior before a deadline or its attention to the case. |
| (2) | Written advice: cases on which a written statement rather than a written decision will be sent to the related party to require stopping or correcting certain behavior or ask to adopt improvement measures. |
| (3) | Written request for agency-in-charge to take appropriate measures: cases for which the agency-in-charge is requested by the FTC to take appropriate measures to solve competition concerns. |
| (4) | Other measures：cases which may not be classified into the aforementioned three items. |
| (1) | Reasons for termination of review：(a)criminal case, (b)civil dispute (c)case fallen upon other agency’s responsibility, and (d)failing to meet procedural requirements (e.g., the filing party withdraw its complaint, failed to supplement information required, been out of contact, complained anonymously, complained against a party does not fit into the definitions by Article 2 of the Fair Trade Act, or the complained party already been filed for the same cause). |
| (2) | Results of Terminating Review：(a)replied with a written explanation, (b)filed for record, or (c)referred to another agency. |
An approved case refers to an application for concerted action for which the FTC decides to grant approval at its commission meeting.
A case partially approved refers to an application for concerted action for which the FTC decides to grant approval for part of the applied items at its commission meeting.
A rejected case refers to an application for concerted action against which the FTC decides to reject at its Commissioners’ Meeting. (This category includes cases whose applicants fail to provide supplementary data as required.)
A case whose application review is terminated refers to an application which contains a fact taking place before the Fair Trade Act became effective, or a case whose handling results can not be classified into any one of the aforementioned three categories and which is already concluded as proposed.
Merger prohibited refers to a merger proposal prohibited by the Commissioners’ Meetings of the FTC.
Termination of review happens either when notifying parties fail to provide sufficient documents to meet the FTC’s written request, or the results of cases handling cannot be categorized into merger not prohibited or merger prohibited.
Explanation refers to a written statement which, provided by the FTC, deliberates and analyzes the meanings of the Fair Trade Act and related regulations for FTC’s enforcement work by a government agency, an enterprise, or an individual’s request.
| (1) | Inquiry-answering refers to a response provided by responsible personnel, instead of the FTC Commissioners’ Meeting, in accordance with a previous explanation or based on the existent laws and regulations whose provisions are already adequate to clarify the question raised or whose provisions are very clear without controversy and need no further interpretation. |
| (2) | It also refers to a response to a request of FTC’s advisory opinion by a court, a prosecutor’s office, or an investigation agency. |
Termination of review happens when a request for explanation goes beyond the FTC’s responsibilities and for which the FTC has no authority to provide explanation, or the contents of the request are vague and the party making such request fails to respond to or ignores the FTC’s request for supplementary information.
Decision refers to a disposition made by the FTC’s Commissioners’ Meeting that a FTC self-initiated investigation case is confirmed to violate the Fair Trade Act (the FTA) or the Supervisory Regulations Governing Multi-level Sales and will receive a decision document.
No-action decision refers to a disposition made by the FTC’s Commissioners Meeting (or authorized persons in accordance with a precedent) that a FTC self-initiated investigation case is confirmed no violation of the FTA or relevant regulation. Reasons for the no-action decision can be classified into following categories:
| (1) | Applicable to Article 46: cases subject to the regulation by Article 46, FTA. |
| (2) | Failing to meet substantive prerequisites: insufficient evidences, failing to meet substantive criteria; the defendant had taken corrective measure already, or in a minor case a settlement had already been reached between two sides. |
| (3) | Others: reasons may not be classified into the aforementioned items. |
Administrative action refers to measures taken by the FTC’s Commissioners Meeting (or authorized persons in accordance with a precedent) in response to a FTC self-initiated investigation case which violated the FTA or the spirit thereof. Administrative action could be any of the followings:
| (1) | Correction program: cases for which no decision rulings will be made before a measure is taken to require related party’s correction of certain behavior before a deadline or its attention to the case. |
| (2) | Written advice: Cases on which a written statement rather than a written decision will be sent to the related party to require stopping or correcting certain behavior or ask to adopt improvement measures. |
| (3) | Written request for agency-in-charge to take appropriate measures: Cases for which the agency-in-charge is requested by the FTC to take appropriate measures to solve competition concerns. |
| (4) | Other measures：Cases which may not be classified into the aforementioned three items. |