行业协会限制竞争行为的反垄断法规制

Regulations to Profession Association's Behavior of Restricting Competition by Antimonopoly Law

行业协会是被我国《反垄断法》规制的主体之一,由于其自身性质和特点,在实践中既可以维护和规范竞争秩序,也可能成为限制竞争的工具。行业协会的限制竞争行为与一般的经营者相比,还存在隐蔽性强、持续时间长、危害范围广等特点,各国对行业协会的限制竞争行为一般采用了较为严格的规制措施。相比美国、德国、日本等国的反垄断立法,我国《反垄断法》在对行业协会限制竞争行为的规制上存在诸多不足,主要表现为认定标准不明确,行业协会的范围不明晰,豁免制度不完善和法律责任体系不健全等,有必要通过立法对行业协会进行明确界定,并针对存在的问题进行立法完善。

The profession association is one of the subjects,which is regulated by Chinese Antimonopoly law.As a result of its own nature and the characteristic,it may maintain and standard the competition order in reality,also possibly becomes the tool of restricting the competition.The profession association's restricting competition behavior,comparing to the common operator,also has the strong confidentiality,the long duration,the broad harm scope and so on characteristics.Various countries have generally used the stricter rules and measures to regulate the profession association's restricting competition behavior.Compare with counter-monopoly legislations of US,Germany,Japan,and so on,China's 'Anti-Monopoly Law' in the trade association's regulations restricting competition there are many disadvantages,mainly to the standard of identification is unclear,the scope of trade associations is not clear,immunity system is imperfect,and liability system is not perfect,It is necessary that making law to clearly define the trade associations,and improving legislation to solve the existing problems.