Decisions of Administrative or Quasi-judicial Agencies -Concerted Actions-2003

1. An investigation initiated by the Fair Trade Commission and a letter of complaint from the Taiwan Provincial Service Station Association stating that National Petroleum Corporation' s franchise stations in the central region had reduced the retail price on their petroleum products in violation of the provisions of Articles 19(iii) and 24 of the Fair Trade Law, and that there were concerted actions by the three major oil suppliers through adjustment of prices for petroleum products following national liberalization of the market for petroleum products
2. Kaohsiung Architects Association violated the Fair Trade Law by setting uniform service charge standards (The decision has been revoked)
3. Taipei Architects Association violated the Fair Trade Law by setting uniform service charge standards (The decision has been revoked)
4. Domestic photo processors allegedly charged higher photo processing fees for consumers that had produced their own digital passport photos, claiming the higher fees were the result of necessary adjustments, editing and production, in violation of the Fair Trade Law
5. China Mariner's Assurance Corp. and Fubon Insurance Co., Ltd. were accused of tie-in sales and concerted action when underwriting automobile theft insurance, in violation of the Fair Trade Law
6. An investigation initiated by the Fair Trade Commission into suspected concerted action by air cargo transport enterprises in hiking rates for shipping air cargo to the United States, in violation of the Fair Trade Law
7. Complaint against operators of cylinder-filling plants in the northern region for concerted action to monopolize the market for delivery and installation of cylinder-packed liquefied petroleum gas
8. Cheng Loong Corporation has on several occasions given advance notice in the media of planned price hikes, giving rise to the question of whether such actions have prompted other firms in the same industry to follow suit with price hikes of their own in violation of the provision of the Fair Trade Law
9. Taiwan Provincial Meat Merchants' Association made a decision to close for five consecutive days following the "Ghost Festival"
10. Shih Yi Road Machinery Co., Ltd. and nine other enterprises engaged in concerted action to raise the price of street excavation in violation of the Fair Trade Act
11. The Nantou County Gravel Suppliers Association affected market competition mechanisms in the gravel market in central Taiwan by leading the setting of reference sales prices for gravel in the Jhushan area to serve as sales price standards for members in all mining areas, and convened a meeting and resolved to act in concert to drive up members' gravel sales prices by suspending work or deliveries under the guise of complying with environmental protection regulatory measures, in violation of Article 14(1) of the Fair Trade Act
12. Hualien County Gravel Association colluded with local gangsters in an attempt to control the "quarrying" and "sales" of gravel in the Hualien area, affecting the trading order of market supply and demand in Hualien' s gravel market, in violation of Article 14 of the Fair Trade Law

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