공정거래위원회 사건처리절차 개선의 주요 내용 - 사건처리 3.0 도입에 즈음하여 -

Recently, the Court canceled against the decision of the Korea Fair Trade Commission(KFTC) fines on the ground of procedural flaw. In addition, KFTC has been pointed out that the procedural rights guaranteed insufficient. In this regard, KFTC seeks transparency and increase fairness through amendment to case procedure rules and enactment of investigative procedures rules, etc. It is so called “investigation and enforcement 3.0”. Main Contents is improvement of traditional field practice, strengthen of internal controls, reinforcement of leniency operations, enhancement of records management. First, regarding improvement of traditional field practice KFTC legislate investigative procedures rules. It contains investigation procedure and investigator guidelines for garantee of suspects rights and interests and transparency of procedure. Second, in order to strengthen of internal controls all field practice was conducted after the case registration. And through the notification of procedure rule prevented the case processing delay, in order to prevent a space of law enforcement strengthened the management statute of limitations etc., in order to enhance the fairness of examiner was introduced to the system of exclusion, evasion, avoidance. Third, in the case of leniency the voluntary reporting agents must attend KFTC tribunal to avoid a declaration of falsified or exaggerated. Fourth, organizing the case records management prevent losing case records and reduce the burden of examinee. KFTC improved last 30 years practice by these procedure upgrading. This enables case processing procedures more transparent and fair. As a result, quasi-judicial role of KFTC is still more established.