If an enterprise is ordered to pay a surcharge pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the term "the total sum" in the paragraph (including the cases when these are applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of the Article following the deemed replacement of terms) is deemed to be replaced with "the total sum, multiplied by 1.5,", if the enterprise falls under any of the following items provided, however, that this does not apply if the enterprise is subject to the application of the provisions of paragraph (3).
a person that was subject to an order pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 7-9 (limited to when the order has become final and binding), a notice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (7) of the following Article or paragraph (3) of Article 7-7, or a decision pursuant to paragraph (2) of Article 63 (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "payment order, etc.") within the ten years prior to the investigation start date concerned with the relevant violation (limited to a person committing a violation on or after the day of the payment order, etc.);
a person whose wholly owned subsidiary company was subject to a payment order, etc. (limited to the case when the wholly owned subsidiary company was that of the person on the date of the payment order, etc.) within the ten years prior to the investigation start date concerned with the relevant violation (limited to a person committing a violation on or after the day of the payment order, etc.), excluding persons who fall under the previous item; or
a corporation who is an enterprise who merged with another corporation who is an enterprise subject to a payment order, etc. within the ten years prior to the investigation start date concerned with the relevant violation, or succeeded through a transfer or split to all or part of the business concerned with the violation related to the payment order, etc. from another corporation who is an enterprise subject to a payment order, etc. within the ten years prior to the investigation start date concerned with the relevant violation (limited to a person committing the violation on or after the date of the merger, transfer or split), excluding persons that fall under the previous item (i) or (ii).
If an enterprise is ordered to pay a surcharge pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the term "the total sum" in the paragraph (including the cases when these are applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of the Article following the deemed replacement of terms) is replaced with "the total sum, multiplied by 1.5,", if the enterprise falls under any of the following items provided, however, that this does not apply if the enterprise is subject to the application of provisions of the following paragraph:
a person that planned to engage in a violation and required, requested or instigated another enterprise to engage in, or not to refrain from committing a violation, either individually or in concert with others, thereby causing the other enterprise to engage in, or fail to refrain from committing a violation;
単独で又は共同して、当該違反行為をすることを企て、かつ、他の事業者に対し当該違反行為をすること又はやめないことを要求し、依頼し、又は唆すことにより、当該違反行為をさせ、又はやめさせなかつた者
a person that has, at the request of another enterprise, designated a price, supply volume, purchase volume, market share or transaction counterparty in relation to the goods or services involved in the violation, continuously to other enterprises, either individually or in concert with others; or
beyond the person listed in the preceding two items, a person that has committed any of the following acts to materially facilitate the relevant violation, either individually or in concert with others:
前二号に掲げる者のほか、単独で又は共同して、次のいずれかに該当する行為であつて、当該違反行為を容易にすべき重要なものをした者
requiring, requesting, or instigating another enterprise to perform, or not to discontinue, the relevant violation;
他の事業者に対し当該違反行為をすること又はやめないことを要求し、依頼し、又は唆すこと。
designating price, supply volume, purchase volume, market share, or a transaction counterparty to another enterprise in connection with the goods or services involved in the violation, or about business activities constituting the violation (excluding designations exclusively about one's own transactions);
requiring, requesting, or instigating another enterprise to conceal or disguise at the time of the Japan Fair Trade Commission investigation, the materials related to the relevant violation or the facts that should be the basis of its calculation of the surcharge relating to the relevant violation or to report false facts or submit false materials related to the relevant facts at the time of the investigation; or
他の事業者に対し公正取引委員会の調査の際に当該違反行為又は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資料を隠蔽し、若しくは仮装すること又は当該事実に係る虚偽の事実の報告若しくは資料の提出をすることを要求し、依頼し、又は唆すこと。
requiring, requesting, or instigating another enterprise not to report facts or submit materials pursuant to the procedures provided in the following Article, paragraph (1), item (i), paragraph (2), items (i) through (iv) or paragraph (3), item (i) or (ii), or not to apply for consultation pursuant to the procedures provided in Article 7-5, paragraph (1).
If an enterprise is ordered to pay a surcharge pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the term "the total sum" in the paragraph (1) of the article (including the cases when these are applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of the Article following the deemed replacement of terms) is replaced with "the total sum, multiplied by 2,", if the enterprise falls under any items of paragraph (1) and any items of the preceding paragraph.
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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
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
investigation start date
「調査開始日」
In Chapter 2 (except Article 7-4), the day the Japan Fair Trade Commission first took, in the case concerning a violation, 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) about the violation.
Defined inArticle 2-2, paragraph (15)
payment order, etc.
「納付命令等」
In Article 7-3, paragraph (1), an order under Article 7-2, paragraph (1) or Article 7-9, paragraph (1) or (2) that has become final, a notice under Article 7-4, paragraph (7) or Article 7-7, paragraph (3), or a decision under Article 63, paragraph (2).
Short name set inArticle 7-3, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this paragraph
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.