I. Complaint
Complaint refers to a case filed by reporting agency or referred by other government agencies in writing (including E-mail and fax) or oral (recorded by the FTC) to the FTC, stating a possible violation of the provisions of the laws enforced by the FTC. The results of processing including:
II. Application for Concerted Action
Application for concerted action refers to an application submitted by enterprises to the FTC for an approval to conduct a concerted action, an extension of time limit for the approval, and amendment of approved content of a concerted action according to the Article 15 and the Paragraph 2, the Article 16 of the Fair Trade Act. The results of processing including:
III. Merger Notifications
It refers to a merger notification filed by an enterprise to the FTC according to the Article 11 of the Fair Trade Act. The results of processing including:
IV. Request for Explanation
Request for explanation refers to a request of a government agency, an enterprise, or an individual to the FTC for explanation of certain provisions of the laws enforced by the FTC or a written request of a government agency to comment whether a case is applicable to the laws enforced by the FTC. The results of processing including:
V. FTC Self-initiated Investigation
The FTC self-initiated investigation means that the FTC take initiative to investigate, per its authorization and duties, possible illegal actions against the laws enforced by the FTC in accordance with an established procedure. This category includes actions taken by the FTC itself and triggered by the oral interpellation by the legislators, anonymous complaints, and anonymous complaints referred by other agencies. The results of processing including:
Note:
The terms and the definitions were approved by the FTC staff meeting on December 22, 1994, came into effect in January 1995, and were then amended in September 1995, February 2002, August 2005, February 2011, August 2012, and April 2015.
Table 1: Statistics on Cases Received and Processed by the Commission Unit:Case ItemYearTotal Complaints Application for Concerted Action Merger Request for Explanation Total 56,413 43,959 231 7,163 5,0601992 1,296 1,039 12 13 2321993 1,567 1,243 9 112 2031994 2,020 1,499 11 262 2481995 2,486 1,768 2 435 2811996 2,234 1,636 12 334 2521997 2,277 1,480 23 561 2131998 2,444 1,335 13 863 2331999 2,757 1,522 7 1,064 164 2000 2,697 1,372 12 1,187 126 2001 2,556 1,381 4 1,089 82 2002 1,387 1,186 8 132 61 2003 1,100 999 12 50 39 2004 1,148 1,058 2 33 55 2005 1,833 1,632 7 54 140 2006 1,440 1,306 9 79 46 2007 1,340 1,213 3 69 55 2008 1,507 1,404
6 61 36 2009 1,501 1,402
6 58 35 2010 1,299 1,206
- 45 48 2011 1,517 1,361
7 57 92 2012 2,114 1,955
10 52 97 2013 1,973 1,623
4 51 295 2014 2,001 1,538
8 68 387 2015 1,666 1,302
15 60 289 2016 1,960 1,587
5 71 297 2017 1,960 1,671
7 43 239 2018 2,147 1,802
3 69 273 2019 1,772 1,507
4 64 197 2020 2,119 1,855
9 65 190 2021 2,295 2,076
1 62 156
Table 2: Statistics on Concluded Complaints -- Categorized by Results Unit:Case ItemYear
Total Decision No-action Decision Administrative Action Review Terminated Termination of Investigation Cases Consolidated Total 43,830 3,220 6,875 355 30,912 1 2,467 1992 757 51 100 - 591 - 151993 1,094 79 199 7 749 - 601994 1,408 118 306 40 852 - 921995 1,643 158 280 75 997 - 1331996 1,633 178 325 62 931 - 1371997 1,662 206 315 34 912 - 1951998 1,409 225 278 23 773 - 1101999 1,453 154 281 17 912 - 89 2000 1,384 202 301 13 759 - 109 2001 1,404 192 252 6 825 - 129 2002 1,284 189 218 4 798 - 75 2003 1,056 123 195 3 659 - 76 2004 1,012 101 176 8 680 - 47 2005 1,541 97 225 11 1,114 - 94 2006 1,304 101 390 15 713 - 85 2007 1,304 112 342 2 762 - 86 2008 1,477 101 353 2 967 - 54 2009 1,456 140 352 3 909 - 52 2010 1,243 109 291 1 793 - 49 2011 1,346 110 278 15 898 - 45 2012 1,895 86 316 6 1,340 - 147 2013 1,643 102 276 1 1,160 - 104 2014 1,642 77 199 2 1,275 - 89 2015 1,283 37 101 - 1,108 - 37 2016 1,545 42 129 2 1,327 1 44 2017 1,728 36 104 1 1,485 - 102 2018 1,782 35 81 - 1,617 - 49 2019 1,502 19 77 - 1,386 - 20 2020 1,815 13 58 2 1,692 - 50 2021 2,125 27 77 - 1,928 - 93
Table 3: Statistics on Concluded of Concerted Action -- Categorized by Results |
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Unit: Case |
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Item
Year |
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Total | Application for Concerted Action | Amending concerted action approval item | |||||
Sub-Total | Approved | Rejected | Partially Approved | Review Terminated | |||
Total | 230 |
194 |
148 |
10 |
11 |
25 |
36 |
1992 | 9 |
9 |
5 |
3 |
- |
1 |
- |
1993 | 9 |
9 |
7 |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
1994 | 13 |
13 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
- |
- |
1995 | 1 |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
1996 | 8 |
8 |
5 |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
1997 | 18 |
18 |
11 |
- |
1 |
6 |
- |
1998 | 22 |
22 |
18 |
- |
4 |
- |
- |
1999 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | - | 2 |
- |
2000 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | - |
- |
2001 | 6 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 3 |
- |
2002 | 8 | 8 | 6 | - | - | 2 |
- |
2003 | 14 | 14 | 12 | - | 2 | - |
- |
2004 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
- |
2005 | 6 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 1 |
- |
2006 | 10 | 10 | 9 | - | - | 1 |
- |
2007 | 4 | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
2008 | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - |
2009 | 6 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - |
2010 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
2011 | 5 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
2012 | 12 | 9 | 8 | - | - | 1 | 3 |
2013 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
2014 | 7 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 4 |
2015 | 14 | 8 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 6 |
2016 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
2017 | 7 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 4 |
2018 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 |
2019 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
2020 | 10 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | 4 |
2021 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Table 4: Statistics on Concluded of Merger - Categorized by Results |
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Unit:Case |
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item
Year & Month |
Application for Merger |
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Total |
Approved |
Rejected |
Review |
Cases |
|
Total | 6,009 |
5,904 |
3 |
77 |
25 |
1992 | 8 |
6 |
- |
2 |
- |
1993 | 113 |
107 |
- |
4 |
2 |
1994 | 259 |
259 |
- |
- |
- |
1995 | 429 |
426 |
- |
- |
3 |
1996 | 340 |
339 |
- |
1 |
- |
1997 | 537 |
535 |
- |
1 |
1 |
1998 | 855 |
843 |
- |
9 |
3 |
1999 | 1,045 |
1,032 |
- |
9 |
4 |
2000 | 1,206 |
1,177 |
3 |
18 |
8 |
2001 | 1,118 |
1,087 |
- |
29 |
2 |
2002 (1-2) | 99 |
93 |
- |
4 |
2 |
Item
Year & Month |
Merger For Notification |
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Total |
Merger not Prohibited |
Merger Prohibited |
Review Terminated |
Cases Consolidated |
|
Total | 1,144 |
566 |
9 |
563 |
6 |
2002 (2-12) |
42 |
24 |
1 |
17 |
- |
2003 | 50 |
31 |
- |
19 |
- |
2004 | 31 |
18 |
- |
13 |
- |
2005 | 54 |
34 |
- |
20 |
- |
2006 | 77 |
34 |
- |
42 |
1 |
2007 | 67 |
37 |
1 |
29 |
- |
2008 | 65 |
36 |
2 |
27 |
- |
2009 | 57 |
27 |
2 |
28 |
- |
2010 | 44 |
19 |
1 |
24 |
- |
2011 | 60 |
28 |
- |
32 |
- |
2012 | 47 |
26 |
- |
20 |
1 |
2013 | 50 |
30 |
- |
19 |
1 |
2014 | 66 |
33 |
- |
33 |
- |
2015 | 63 |
26 |
- |
35 |
2 |
2016 | 69 |
33 |
- |
35 |
1 |
2017 | 44 |
11 |
- |
33 |
- |
2018 | 67 |
26 |
1 |
40 |
- |
2019 | 60 |
26 |
1 |
33 |
- |
2020 | 62 |
35 |
- |
27 |
- |
2021 | 69 |
32 |
- |
37 |
- |
Table 5: Statistics of Closed Cases Involving the Commission's Explanation - Categorized by Results Unit:Case Item
YearTotal Explanation or Inquiry-Answering
Review Terminated Cases Consolidated Total 5,058 3,838 1,121 991992 173 133 39 11993 220 164 53 31994 251 180 59 121995 279 157 109 131996 246 175 60 111997 238 148 86 41998 235 156 76 31999 169 108 60 12000 129
89
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12001 84 52 32 -2002 71 45 24 22003 36 28 7 12004 55 40 14 1 2005 138 64 73 1 2006 47 35 12 - 2007 58 39 19 - 2008 36 29 7 - 2009 34 25 9 - 2010 50 34 16 - 2011 89 55 33 1 2012 99 58 41 - 2013 292 266 26 - 2014 385 337 45 3 2015 291 267 23 1 2016 292 252 34 6 2017 245 216 27 22018 273 247 24 22019 175 151 24 -2020 207 160 21 262021 161 128 29 4