转售价格维持行为的反垄断法适用冲突研究——以格力案和美敦力案为例

Application of Anti-monopoly Law to Conflict in the Maintenance of Resale Price——Case Study of Gree and Medtronic

转售价格维持作为纵向垄断协议的一种,首先应该结合垄断协议的认定原理来判断是否构成纵向垄断协议;其次对其横向反竞争效果进行重点分析,只有能够证明其存在横向的反竞争效果时才可能被反垄断法所禁止;最后对涉案协议的效率进行考察,将其效率和反竞争效果进行比较之后才能得出是否应该受到反垄断法禁止的确切结论。在格力案和美敦力案中,无论是司法机关还是执法机关均未对效率进行考察,分析依据和方法存在不足,且均未形成一个明确系统的分析方法。

It is suggested that the maintenance of resale price, as one kind of vertical monopoly agreement, should firstly be determined whether it constitutes vertical monopoly agreement by principles in determining monopoly agreement. Secondly,it＇s necessary to analyze the horizontal anti-competitive effect emphatically. Only when it can be proved that it has the horizontal anti-competitive effect, may it be prohibited by Anti-monopoly Law. Finally, the efficiency of the questioned agreement shall be examined, and the determination shall be made only after the comparison between the efficiency and anti-competitive effect. In“Gree case” and “Medtronic case”,judiciary authorities and law enforcement agencies both failed to examine the efficiency, and there were some defects in the basis and method of analysis and failed to propose a systematic analysis method.