对我国价格卡特尔规制的法学研究

Law Research of China's Regulation on the Price Cartel

价格卡特尔是对竞争危害最大的卡特尔,它严重限制了市场的竞争机制并损害了消费者的利益。在我国市场化进程中,许多行业已经出现了价格卡特尔现象,与其他国家相比,我国的价格卡特尔还带有经济体制转轨这一特定历史时期的印记。目前,我国现有法律对价格卡特尔的规制存在着许多不足之处,相比而言,2002年2月的《反垄断法(草案)》对价格卡特尔的规制有了明显的进步,但是,这一草案对价格卡特尔的规制仍然不尽完善。未来我国反垄断法对价格卡特尔的规制还应当将行业协会作为特定主体纳入价格卡特尔规制的对象范围,强化对价格卡特尔的制裁措施,实施双罚原则,设立鼓励揭露价格卡特尔的举报制度。

Price cartel is most dangerous to competition. It imprisons the competitive mechanism of the market and damages consumers' profits. During the development of China's market economy, price cartel has turned up in many industries. Compared with other countries, China's price cartels have some obvious characteristics of economic transition. Many of the price cartels develop under the trade associations' acquiescence and guidance, indicating government administrative interference on the market. At the same time, however, there is a lack of regulation on price cartels in the existing Chinese laws. The Antitrust Law of 2002 (a draft) is a big progress in this field, but its regulation on price cartels is not yet perfect. In the future, in order to make its regulation more effective, Chinese antitrust laws must pay attention to the following aspects: making trade associations a special part in the price cartel regulation; reinforcing sanction policies on price cartels, i.e. implementing the double-punishment principle; setting up impeaching institutions which encourage actions uncovering price cartels and its kind.