If an enterprise effects unreasonable restraint of trade or enters into an international agreement or an international contract containing matters, falling under unreasonable restraint of trade, that is related to the price of goods or services or substantially restrain supply or purchase volume, market share or transaction counterparties with respect to goods or services and thereby affects their price, the Japan Fair Trade Commission must order the enterprise, pursuant to the procedures as provided in Section 2 of Chapter VIII, to pay to the national treasury a surcharge of an amount equivalent to the total sum of ten percent of the amount listed in items (i) through (iii) below and the amount listed in item (iv) below provided, however, that if the amount thus calculated is less than one million yen, the Japan Fair Trade Commission must not order the payment of the surcharge.
事業者が、不当な取引制限又は不当な取引制限に該当する事項を内容とする国際的協定若しくは国際的契約であつて、商品若しくは役務の対価に係るもの又は商品若しくは役務の供給量若しくは購入量、市場占有率若しくは取引の相手方を実質的に制限することによりその対価に影響することとなるものをしたときは、公正取引委員会は、第八章第二節に規定する手続に従い、当該事業者に対し、第一号から第三号までに掲げる額の合計額に百分の十を乗じて得た額及び第四号に掲げる額の合算額に相当する額の課徴金を国庫に納付することを命じなければならない。ただし、その額が百万円未満であるときは、その納付を命ずることができない。
the amount of sales of the relevant goods or services that the enterprise and its specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. supplied in the particular field of trade concerned with the relevant violation (limited to the violation related to supplying goods or services; hereinafter the same applies in this item) (excluding the goods or services that the specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. supplied to the enterprise and the goods or services that the enterprise or the specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. supplied to the supplying subsidiary company of the enterprise, etc.), and the relevant goods or services that the enterprise and the specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. supplied to the supplying subsidiary company, etc. in the particular field of trade (excluding the goods or services that the supplying subsidiary company, etc. (limited to the violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. or the specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. of the enterprise) received from the enterprise or the specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. in order to supply the goods or services to others) for the period of implementation concerned with the violation, calculated using the method provided by Cabinet Order;
当該違反行為（商品又は役務を供給することに係るものに限る。以下この号において同じ。）に係る一定の取引分野において当該事業者及びその特定非違反供給子会社等が供給した当該商品又は役務（当該事業者に当該特定非違反供給子会社等が供給したもの及び当該事業者又は当該特定非違反供給子会社等が当該事業者の供給子会社等に供給したものを除く。）並びに当該一定の取引分野において当該事業者及び当該特定非違反供給子会社等が当該事業者の供給子会社等に供給した当該商品又は役務（当該供給子会社等（違反供給子会社等又は特定非違反供給子会社等である場合に限る。）が他の者に当該商品又は役務を供給するために当該事業者又は当該特定非違反供給子会社等から供給を受けたものを除く。）の政令で定める方法により算定した、当該違反行為に係る実行期間における売上額
the amount of purchases of the relevant goods or services that the enterprise and its specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc. received in the particular field of trade concerned with the relevant violation (limited to the violation related to receiving goods or services; hereinafter the same applies in this item) (excluding the goods or services that the specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc. received from the enterprise and the goods or services that the enterprise or the specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc. received from the purchasing subsidiary company, etc. of the enterprise), and the relevant goods or services that the enterprise and the specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc. received from the purchasing subsidiary company, etc. in the particular field of trade concerned with the violation (excluding the goods or services that the purchasing subsidiary company, etc. (limited to the violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc. or the specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc.) received from others in order to supply the goods or services to the enterprise or the specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc.) for the period of implementation concerned with the violation, calculated using the method provided by Cabinet Order;
当該違反行為（商品又は役務の供給を受けることに係るものに限る。以下この号において同じ。）に係る一定の取引分野において当該事業者及びその特定非違反購入子会社等が供給を受けた当該商品又は役務（当該事業者から当該特定非違反購入子会社等が供給を受けたもの及び当該事業者又は当該特定非違反購入子会社等が当該事業者の購入子会社等から供給を受けたものを除く。）並びに当該一定の取引分野において当該事業者及び当該特定非違反購入子会社等が当該事業者の購入子会社等から供給を受けた当該商品又は役務（当該購入子会社等（違反購入子会社等又は特定非違反購入子会社等である場合に限る。）が他の者から供給を受けて当該事業者又は当該特定非違反購入子会社等に供給したものを除く。）の政令で定める方法により算定した、当該違反行為に係る実行期間における購入額
the amount calculated by using the method provided by Cabinet Order, equivalent to the price for the business that is closely connected to the goods or services concerned with the relevant violation such as manufacturing, sales, or management of all or part of the goods or services which, provided by Cabinet Order, the enterprise and its wholly owned subsidiary company, etc. (limited to the wholly owned subsidiary company, etc. that has never committed a violation; the same applies in the following item) conducted;
the amount calculated by using the method provided by Cabinet Order, equivalent to economic benefits such as money which the enterprise and its wholly owned subsidiary company, etc. gained irrespective of its name such as charges and remuneration, with regard to not supplying the goods or services concerned with the relevant violation to others (excluding the supplying subsidiary company, etc. of the enterprise, other enterprises that committed a violation and their supplying subsidiary company, etc.) or not receiving the goods or services from others (excluding the purchasing subsidiary company, etc. of the enterprise, other enterprises that committed a violation and their purchasing subsidiary company, etc.).
In cases under the preceding paragraph, if an enterprise falls under either of the following items (excluding the cases where one or more subsidiary companies, etc. of the enterprise do not fall under any of those items), the term "ten percent" appearing in the paragraph is replaced with "four percent".
any company whose amount of stated capital or total contribution amount is not more than three hundred million yen and any company or individual whose number of regular employees is three hundred or less, which operates as its principal business, a manufacturing, construction, transportation or other business (excluding the business types listed in items (ii) through (iv) and the business types provided by Cabinet Order pursuant to item (v));
any company whose amount of stated capital or total contribution amount is not more than one hundred million yen and any company or individual whose number of regular employees is one hundred or less, which operates a wholesale business (excluding business types provided by Cabinet Order pursuant to item (v)) as its principal business;
資本金の額又は出資の総額が一億円以下の会社並びに常時使用する従業員の数が百人以下の会社及び個人であつて、卸売業（第五号の政令で定める業種を除く。）に属する事業を主たる事業として営むもの
any company whose amount of stated capital or total amount of contribution is not more than fifty million yen and any company or individual whose number of regular employees is one hundred or less, which operates as its principal business, business belonging to service business (excluding the business types provided by Cabinet Order pursuant to item (v));
資本金の額又は出資の総額が五千万円以下の会社並びに常時使用する従業員の数が百人以下の会社及び個人であつて、サービス業（第五号の政令で定める業種を除く。）に属する事業を主たる事業として営むもの
any company whose amount of stated capital or total amount of contribution is not more than fifty million yen and any company or individual whose number of regular employees is fifty or less, which operates as its principal business, business belonging to retail business (excluding the business types provided by Cabinet Order pursuant to the following item);
資本金の額又は出資の総額が五千万円以下の会社並びに常時使用する従業員の数が五十人以下の会社及び個人であつて、小売業（次号の政令で定める業種を除く。）に属する事業を主たる事業として営むもの
any company whose amount of stated capital or total amount of contribution is not more than the amount provided by Cabinet Order for each of its business types and any company or individual whose number of regular employees is the number provided by Cabinet Order or less for each of its business types, which operates as its principal business, business belonging to any of the business types provided by Cabinet Order; or
資本金の額又は出資の総額がその業種ごとに政令で定める金額以下の会社並びに常時使用する従業員の数がその業種ごとに政令で定める数以下の会社及び個人であつて、その政令で定める業種に属する事業を主たる事業として営むもの
of cooperative partnerships and other partnerships established pursuant to special Acts with the principal purpose of cooperation in business (including federation of partnerships), any partnership which has a scale comparable to the scale provided in each of the preceding items for the individual business type in the preceding items as provided by Cabinet Order.
協業組合その他の特別の法律により協同して事業を行うことを主たる目的として設立された組合（組合の連合会を含む。）のうち、政令で定めるところにより、前各号に定める業種ごとに当該各号に定める規模に相当する規模のもの
When the Japan Fair Trade Commission orders an enterprise to pay a surcharge pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), if the enterprise has not responded to the request from the Japan Fair Trade Commission or the staff who engage in the administrative affairs pertaining to investigations into the case concerned with the violation (such as the investigators designated pursuant to Article 47, paragraph (2)) to report facts or submit materials regarding facts concerned with the violation that should form the basis for the calculation of the surcharge for the violation, the Japan Fair Trade Commission may order the enterprise to pay the surcharge, by estimating the amount listed in each of the items in paragraph (1) for the period of implementation where the facts that should form the basis for the calculation of the surcharge cannot be ascertained because the enterprise has not reported the facts and submitted the materials regarding the facts, using a reasonable method provided in the Rules of the Japan Fair Trade Commission, in light of materials obtained from the enterprise, its specified non-violating supplying subsidiary companies, etc., its specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary companies, etc. or other enterprises that supply or receive goods or services concerned with the violation, or other materials.
第一項の規定により課徴金の納付を命ずる場合において、当該事業者が公正取引委員会又は当該違反行為に係る事件について第四十七条第二項の規定により指定された審査官その他の当該事件の調査に関する事務に従事する職員による当該違反行為に係る課徴金の計算の基礎となるべき事実に係る事実の報告又は資料の提出の求めに応じなかつたときは、公正取引委員会は、当該事業者に係る実行期間のうち当該事実の報告又は資料の提出が行われず課徴金の計算の基礎となるべき事実を把握することができない期間における第一項各号に掲げる額を、当該事業者、その特定非違反供給子会社等若しくは特定非違反購入子会社等又は当該違反行為に係る商品若しくは役務を供給する他の事業者若しくは当該商品若しくは役務の供給を受ける他の事業者から入手した資料その他の資料を用いて、公正取引委員会規則で定める合理的な方法により推計して、課徴金の納付を命ずることができる。
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enterprise
「事業者」
Anyone who carries on a commercial, industrial, financial or other business; an officer, employee, agent or other person acting for the benefit of an enterprise is also treated as one for the purposes of Article 2, paragraph (2) and Chapter 3 (trade associations).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
unreasonable restraint of trade
「不当な取引制限」
An enterprise (事業者), by contract, agreement or any other means, acting together with other enterprises to fix, maintain or raise prices or to limit quantities, technology, products, facilities or business partners, so that they mutually restrict or carry on their business activities and, contrary to the public interest, substantially restrain competition in a particular field of trade.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
market share
「市場占有率」
In Chapter 2, the share, by volume or by value, of the goods or services supplied in a particular field of trade during a given period that one or more enterprises supply or are supplied with.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
subsidiary company, etc.
「子会社等」
In Chapter 2, an enterprise's subsidiary company (another company in which a corporation holds a majority of all shareholders' or members' votes, directly or through its subsidiaries), its parent company (a company that has it as a subsidiary), or another company with the same parent company as the enterprise.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (2)· applies only in this chapter
wholly owned subsidiary company, etc.
「完全子会社等」
In Chapter 2, an enterprise's wholly owned subsidiary company (a company all of whose shareholders' votes are held by a corporation, directly or through its wholly owned subsidiaries), its wholly owning parent company, or another company with the same wholly owning parent company as the enterprise.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (3)· applies only in this chapter
supplying subsidiary company, etc.
「供給子会社等」
In Chapter 2, a subsidiary company, etc. (子会社等) of an enterprise that committed a violation under Article 7-2, paragraph (1) or Article 7-9, paragraph (1) or (2), the provisions on surcharges (課徴金), which supplied the goods or services concerned with the violation in the field of trade concerned.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (4)· applies only in this chapter
violating supplying subsidiary company, etc.
「違反供給子会社等」
In Chapter 2, a supplying subsidiary company, etc. (供給子会社等) that itself committed the violation in the field of trade concerned with the enterprise's violation.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (5)· applies only in this chapter
specified non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc.
「特定非違反供給子会社等」
In Chapter 2, a non-violating supplying subsidiary company, etc. (非違反供給子会社等) that is in a wholly owned relationship (完全子会社等) with the enterprise that committed the violation and supplied the goods or services concerned to others on the enterprise's instructions or on information obtained from it.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (7)· applies only in this chapter
purchasing subsidiary company, etc.
「購入子会社等」
In Chapter 2, a subsidiary company, etc. (子会社等) of an enterprise that committed a violation under Article 7-2, paragraph (1) or Article 7-9, paragraph (1) or (2), the provisions on surcharges (課徴金), which was supplied with the goods or services concerned with the violation in the field of trade concerned.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (8)· applies only in this chapter
violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc.
「違反購入子会社等」
In Chapter 2, a purchasing subsidiary company, etc. (購入子会社等) that itself committed the violation in the field of trade concerned with the enterprise's violation.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (9)· applies only in this chapter
specified non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc.
「特定非違反購入子会社等」
In Chapter 2, a non-violating purchasing subsidiary company, etc. (非違反購入子会社等) that is in a wholly owned relationship (完全子会社等) with the enterprise that committed the violation and was supplied with the goods or services concerned by others on the enterprise's instructions or on information obtained from it.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (11)· applies only in this chapter
period of implementationmachine translation
「実行期間」
In Chapter 2, the period from the day an enterprise first carried out business activity implementing a violation under Article 7-2, paragraph (1) or Article 7-9, paragraph (1) to the day that activity ended, starting no earlier than ten years before the day the Japan Fair Trade Commission first took against it, in the case, one of the investigative measures in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (iv), Article 102, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 103-3 (or, if it took none, the day the enterprise received the advance notification (事前通知)).
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (13)· applies only in this chapter
Fair Trade Commission
公正取引委員会
The body the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (独占禁止法, the Antimonopoly Act) sets up to achieve that Act's purpose — among other things, to promote fair and free competition by banning private monopolization, unreasonable restraint of trade and unfair trade practices, and so to protect the interests of general consumers and the democratic and sound development of the national economy (Antimonopoly Act, Articles 1 and 27, paragraph (1)). It comes under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction, but its chairperson and four commissioners — appointed by the Prime Minister with the consent of both Houses of the Diet — exercise their authority independently (Articles 27, paragraph (2), 28 and 29). Under the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, businesses and trade associations may, with the approval of both the Prime Minister and the Fair Trade Commission, conclude or set agreements or rules (協定又は規約) on premiums or representations (Article 36, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Antimonopoly Act, Arts. 1, 27, 28, 29 and Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, Art. 36 as a reference.