LATEST LEGAL NEWS
PCC AMENDED THE LAW OF PROMOTION OF PRIVATE PARTICIPATION IN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
In order to enhance the will of private investment and take part in infrastructure projects positively, the Public Construction Commission framed the draft of Law for Promotion of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects....[more]
THE GOVERNMENT WILL ESTABLISH THE FOOD DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR GUARDING THE FOOD SAFETY
During June 2008, one shipment of toxic milk goods which has caused more than 400 babies became ill in the Mainland China was imported from Mainland China to Taiwan. After the imported milk powder had been examined and discovered the compound of melamine, the seventeen milk manufacture companies in Taiwan were required by Department of Health to retrieve their products which were made in China and to stop selling immediately...[more]
TO AMEND THE GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT ACT FOR PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF PROCUREMENT PROCESS
In order to establish a government procurement system that has fair and open procurement procedures, promotes the efficiency and effectiveness of government procurement operation, and to solve the controversies between entities and corporations, the Public Construction Commission amended the government Procurement Act....[more] TO AMEND THE STATURE FOR UPGRADING INDUSTRIES WHICH THE GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING TO OFFER 5 YEARS DUTY-FREE REWARD FOR THE TRADITIONAL INDUSTRY
For promoting the private investment and accelerating the recovery of domestic economy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, on October 30th, 2008, proposed an amendment of the “Stature for Upgrading Industries Article 9.2” which has planned to enlarge the applying range of preferential tariff for the manufacture and relevant technical service industry...[more]
NCC PLANS TO REVISE NCC ORGINIZATION ACT
Since National Communications Commission Organization Act (herein after referred as “NCC Organization Act”) has been implemented for 2 years, parts of it’s provisions are still far away from the goal of structuring an independent organization, the NCC commissioners passed the amendments on Oct 22, 2008 with the hope to rid itself of the intervention of other authorities...[more]
THE FIRST READING OF THE DRAFT OF ELECTRONIC CARD REGULATION WAS PASSED
On 6th Nov.2008, the Finance Committee of Legislative Yuan passed the draft ,“the issuance and regulation of electronic card” (also known as cash storage card). Once if the regulation is approved , electronic card will be applied among different operating systems or in different business settings...[more]
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS A DISCUSSION ON JAPANESE REGULATIONS ON GMO-RELATED EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT
"The Act on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity through Regulations on the Use of Living Modified Organisms" (Cartagena Law) has been adopted in Japan in 2003, and it makes Japanese GMO regulations lawful and enforceable...[more]
A STUDY ON THE UTILIZATION OF NATIONAL R&D RESULTS
After the Fundamental Science and Technology Act is announced and implemented, the intellectual property rights and results derived from government-funding R&D project may be conferred, in whole or in part, to the research organization or business for ownership or licensing for use, and are not subject to the National Property Act...[more]
ANALYSIS OF OPEN SOURCE BIOTECHNOLOGY
Recently, the patent protection system has caused the anti-common tragedy which was produced by the poor utilized front technologies and fundamental research tools in agriculture and pharmaceutical research fields worldwide; also this kind of phenomenon will produce serious influences which block the long-term development of agriculture and pharmaceutical industry...[more]
ANALYZING THE CONTENT OF THE "ENTERPRISE IPR MANAGEMENT REGULATION" RELEASED BY THE JIANGSU PROVINCE OF CHINA AND ITS IMPACT ON THE TAIWANESE INVESTORS IN CHINA
Ever since Professors Prahalad and Hamel published the article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation" on the Harvard Business Review in 1990, enterprises themselves as well as governments in the world all strive to identify their core competence which is recognized as an enterprise’s main source of competitiveness and thus the main driving force of sustaining the economic growth of a country...[more]
