On-ple law’disclosure of fee standards’ omitted… The industry “must be reflected in the bill” (general)

Chairman of the Fair Trade Commission “I accept your desperate voice heavily”

(Sejong = Yonhap News) Reporter Su-yeon Su = In the enactment of the Online Platform Fairness Act, the small and medium-sized business industry said, “Reflected in the bill again, for the fact that platforms such as delivery apps must state the standards for charging fees and the procedure in the contract with the merchant It should be done,” he pointed out.

Seo Seung-won, a full-time vice chairman of the Small and Medium Business Federation, said at a meeting between the Fair Commissioner and online platform companies on the 11th. It was a matter,” he said.

Vice Chairman Seo said, “The issue of charging fees is the point most emphasized by merchants who have experienced unfair behavior.”

In the Online Platform Fairness Act, which was legislated by the Fair Trade Commission on September 28, last year,’specific details of the online platform brokerage service, standards and procedures for charging fees provided in return’ were required to be entered in the platform-entering company contract. However, it was replaced by a clause requiring that the’contents, period and price of the brokerage service’ should be stated in the point that the required information must be flexibly opened during the legal review process. Instead, it was made more detailed through the enforcement decree.

Vice Chairman Seo said, “It is a position that the FTC should do this rather than the Korea Communications Commission for the online platform law,” he said. “Please allow industry opinions to be discussed further.”

Song Sang-min, head of the Fair Trade Commission’s Market Supervisory Commission, said, “The required items for the platform-entering company contract were originally 15 items, but we decided to set it to 7 items.” .

There was also an opinion that the bargaining power should be enhanced by granting group composition rights to participating companies.

Mr. Wan-soo Kim, vice chairman of the Federation of Small Business Owners, said, “It is necessary to quickly legislate to prevent damage to small business owners.” It is important to clarify that disputes can be prevented,” he pointed out.

He said, “Furthermore, we need to review the group composition rights and the right to request consultations of the participating companies.

In addition, the Democratic Party’s lawmaker Min Hyung-bae said that the online platform store companies could form an organization like franchise franchisees (right to form a group), and request business associations to discuss the terms of the transaction.

Some pointed out that delivery app fees should go down.

“The prolonged social distancing has hurt the catering business, but the delivery app fee has not changed, so it is necessary to transparently disclose the delivery app fee calculation method and reduce the fee through social agreement,” said Sohn Moo-ho, head of the Korea Food Service Federation. “There is a need to clarify the responsibility of platform operators by improving related laws and systems,” he pointed out.

The lodging app enforces the lowest price guarantee and takes advantage of fees and other benefits, but leaves all responsibilities such as reservation issues for minors to the merchants (Korea Lodging Business Federation), and major platforms set up their products as bridesmaids and focus on their own PB products. There is also an opinion that there is no separate law applicable to platform operators (Korea Franchise Industry Association) is preparing a sales strategy of (Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business Self-Employers).

Accordingly, Chairman Jo Sung-wook of the Fair Trade Commission said, “We are heavily accepting the desperate voice of the industry to quickly make the situation and countermeasures for the damages of small and medium-sized business owners and small business owners. Answered.

Chairman Cho said, “There is a blind spot that is difficult to regulate with offline-centered Gaeul-related laws in a situation where SMEs’ reliance on online platforms increases,” he said.

The meeting was attended by Chairman Cho, Seung-won Seo, Vice Chairman of the Small Business Federation, Wan-Soo Kim, Vice Chairman of the Federation of Small Business Owners, Kihong Bang, Chairman of the Federation of Small and Medium Business Owners, Kang Seok-woo, Vice Chairman of the Korea Franchise Industry Association, Moo-Ho Son, Head of the Korea Food Service Industry Cooperation Promotion Team, and Jeong Gyeong-jae, Chairman of the Korea Federation of Lodging Businesses. .

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