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Chapter III The Management and Safety of the Field Involved in Experiments
Article 13
The central authorities in charge of the end enterprises concerned shall make public announcements concerning the radio frequency available for innovative experimentation, including, the geographical range, duration of the experiments and other relevant details and conditions.
The applicant may start using the approved assigned radio frequency after obtaining the approval for innovative experimentation.
The competent authority in charge of telecommunications shall handle issues of the telecommunication radio-frequency devices in the innovative experimentation concerning import management, communication interference processing, and other government oversight matters relating to telecommunications.
Article 14
The applicants shall comply with the provisions of this Act, and implement all actions, as required by the competent authority, when the innovative experimentations are approved, and shall provide the status of innovative experimentations pursuant to the instructions of the competent authority. The competent authority may conduct on-site visits as needed, and the applicants shall not evade, obstruct, or refuse.
During the period of the innovative experimentation, the applicant shall report the number of times and the reasons for human intervention in the control of the unmanned vehicle(s) on a monthly basis, as a reference for the competent authority to use in evaluating the safety of innovative experimentation.
Applicants should collect and retain all recorded data made during the period of the innovative experimentation, and such data should be retained for at least three years after the expiration of the innovative experimentation period. Based on the requirements for safety of the innovative experimentation or other public interests, the competent authority may order the applicant to provide relevant information of the data.
Article 15
The applicant shall, prior to the start of the innovative experimentation testing, publish information relating to the experiments via the media or on websites, and shall post relevant information with appropriate means on the unmanned vehicles or in the area of experiments.
In the case of a safety incident occurrence during the period of innovative experimentation, the applicant shall, in addition to assuming compensation responsibility in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, immediately suspend the experiment, and inform the competent authority and transportation competent authority concerning the occurrence of the incident, as well as other subsequent incident handling measures.
After the occurrence of an incident, as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the competent authority and the transportation competent authorities shall assess the situation to ensure that no safety risks remained, before giving consent to resume the experiments.
The competent authority and the central transportation competent authorities shall determine the regulations concerning on matters relating to the publishing and posting of information by the applicant prior to implementing innovative experimentation, the accident reporting procedures after the occurrence of an incident, the experiment suspension procedures, and other relevant procedures.
Article 16
The applicant shall, in accordance with the nature of the innovative experimentation, adopt appropriate and sufficient information security measures during the period of innovative experimentation, to ensure the security of information collection, processing, utilization and transmission.
Article 17
When collecting, processing, or utilizing personal data, the applicant shall comply with the provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act.
Article 18
When the applicant establishes contracts with experiment participants, concerning their participation in the experiments, the said contracts should be established on the principles of fairness, reasonableness, equality, reciprocity, and good faith.
If the clauses in the contract, as referred to in the preceding paragraph, are clearly unfair, the said clauses are invalid. If there is any doubt about the clauses of the contract, the interpretation shall be made in favor of the experiment participants.
The applicant should heed the duties of being a good manager during the period of innovative experimentation.