我國公用事業定型化契約條款之競爭監督

The Competition Oversight of Taiwan's Public Utilities Standard Contract Terms

薛美蓮(Mei-Lien Hsueh)

《國家政策季刊》 3卷4期 (2004/12) Pp. 217-226

https://doi.org/10.6407/NPQ.200412.0217

摘要

公用事業與一般民眾生活息息相關，其經營者擬定定型化契約條款與用戶訂約，一旦公用事業利用其優勢地位締約，對弱勢之用戶可謂影響重大，因此，應強化對公用事業定型化契約條款之各種監督。然尋求司法途徑救濟，以公用事業之特殊性而言，對用戶緩不濟急，惟該條款往往有失公平，而公平交易法（以下簡稱公平法）之立法目的係為確保公平競爭，保障消費者利益，在公用事業定型化契約條款有限制競爭或不公平競爭時，依法進行競爭監督。有關公用事業定型化契約條款之競爭監督問題包括一、公用事業定型化契約條款，目的事業主管機關之行政監督與公平交易委員會（以下簡稱公平會）之競爭監督產生競合時，如何適用公平法第四十六條規定？二、公平會依公平法第十條及第二十四條監督時，其監督內容為何？本文將蒐集實務資料探討之。

關鍵字

公用事業 ； 定型化契約條款 ； 競爭監督

並列摘要

Public utilities relate to the people's life. Public utilities offer goods and service which are people's necessaries mostly and it is no possible of being substituted, so it should strengthen various overseeing public utilities standard contract terms. However, it is not sufficient for user to seek judicial repair. The purpose of Fair Treat Law is to protect fair competition and consumers' benefit. Fair Treat Law exercise competition oversight when public utilities standard contract terms make competition restricted or unfair. The problems of public utilities standard contract terms competition oversight include: (a) It is how to apply Fair Treat Law §46, when government oversight and competition oversight conflict in public utilities standard contract terms? (b) What are the contexts that Fair Treat Commission oversee public utilities in Fair Treat Law §10, §24? The papers collect cases to discuss.

並列關鍵字

public utilities ； competition oversight ； general terms