RCEP 竞争政策条款研究

Research on RCEP Competition Policy Clauses

RCEP作为全球最大的、高质量的自由贸易协定,为保证贸易投资自由化利益不为反竞争行为所抵消或损害,该协定在第13章制定了高水平的竞争政策规则。协定采用软硬兼施的方法协调缔约方国内竞争法,为竞争执法设定了非歧视、程序公正和执法透明等义务,将跨境消费者保护纳入协定规范范围,考虑到发展中国家或最不发达国家的利益,协定要求缔约方加强技术合作和能力建设,并给予这些国家以特殊和差别待遇。该协定的签订,为中国与其他发达国家商签包含高水准竞争政策规则的自由贸易协定提供了有益的经验。

RCEP is the world's largest,high-quality free trade agreement.In order to ensure that the benefits of trade and investment liberalization are not nullifi ed or impaired by anti-competitive activities,the agreement establishes high-level competition policy rules in Chapter 13.The agreement adopts a combination of soft and hard methods to coordinate the domestic competition laws of the Parties,establishes non-discrimination,procedural fairness,and transparency in law enforcement for competition enforcement,and incorporates cross-border consumer protection into the scope of the agreement,taking into account developing countries or least developed countries.The agreement requires the Parties to strengthen technical cooperation and capacity building,and give these countries special and differential treatment.The signing of this agreement provides useful experience for China to negotiate free trade agreements with other developed countries that include high-level competition policy rules.