15 U.S.C. § 7609 — Study and report
submitted 23 years ago by Pub. L. 108-164 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 182 words · no verdicts yet
The FTC must study how strong competition is in selling prescription contact lenses. The study covers exclusive seller deals, online versus offline differences, brand-specific prescriptions, and the FTC's eyeglasses rule. The FTC Chairman must report the results to Congress within 12 months of this chapter's effective date.
(a) Study: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must study how strong competition is in the sale of prescription contact lenses. The study must look at these issues:
(1) How often prescribers or sellers have exclusive relationships with contact lens manufacturers, and how that affects competition.
(2) How online sellers differ from offline sellers of contact lenses — including price, access, and availability.
(3) How often contact lens prescriptions specify a brand name or a custom-labeled lens, why that happens, and how it affects consumers and competition.
(4) How the FTC's eyeglasses rule (16 CFR 456 and following) affects competition, how that rule is enforced, and how that enforcement has affected competition.
(5) Any other issue that affects competition in the sale of prescription contact lenses.
(b) Report: Within 12 months after this chapter's effective date, the Chairman of the FTC must send Congress a report on this study.
The Federal Trade Commission shall undertake a study to examine the strength of competition in the sale of prescription contact lenses. The study shall include an examination of the following issues:
Incidence of exclusive relationships between prescribers or sellers and contact lens manufacturers and the impact of such relationships on competition.
Difference between online and offline sellers of contact lenses, including price, access, and availability.
Incidence, if any, of contact lens prescriptions that specify brand name or custom labeled contact lenses, the reasons for the incidence, and the effect on consumers and competition.
The impact of the Federal Trade Commission eyeglasses rule (16 CFR 456 et seq.) on competition, the nature of the enforcement of the rule, and how such enforcement has impacted competition.
Any other issue that has an impact on competition in the sale of prescription contact lenses.
Not later than 12 months after the effective date of this chapter, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission shall submit to the Congress a report of the study required by subsection (a).
Source credit: (Pub. L. 108–164, § 10, Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2026.)
- 2003Enacted · Pub. L. 108-164 · 117 Stat. 2026
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 108-164 on 2003-12-06.
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