Advisory Opinions
FTC staff issue advisory opinions to help clarify FTC rules and decisions, often in response to requests from businesses and industry groups. To find a specific opinion, use the filters on this page.
Opinion 03-1
Discusses the applicability of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to third-party telemarketing companies hired by an insurance company to sell insurance products.
Opinion 03-3
Addresses a request to conduct a demonstration project for electronic compliance with the Franchise Rule.
Opinion 03-2
Discusses whether the Franchise Rule applies to a license agreement for the manufacture and distribution of a soil supplement.
Valley Baptist Medical Center
re: Sale of pharmaceuticals by non-profit hospital to contracted workers who provide services at the hospital
Arkansas Children's Hospital
re: Sale of pharmaceuticals by non-profit children's hospital to patients seen in clinics operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on the hospital's campus.
Opinion 03-1
Discusses whether a franchisor must disclose a guilty plea involving a violation of the Ontario Gaming Control Act under section 436.1(a)(4) of the Franchise Rule.
PriMed Physicians
re: proposal of PriMed Physicians, a physician group practice with 55 physician employees located in Dayton, Ohio, to create with other Dayton-area physicians an advocacy group to undertake "a campaign to inform and educate the general public" about, in the physicians' opinion, the "ill effects and other consequences of the policies and procedures, including depressed reimbursement, by third party payers in Dayton."
Opinion 02-4
Discusses whether franchisors may use financial statements prepared according to non-American generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
Opinion 02-3
Addresses whether a franchisor must furnish disclosures to an existing franchisee when the franchisee initiates a modification of the franchise agreement’s protected territory provision.
Opinion 02-2
Discusses whether a not-for profit 501(c)(3) organization satisfies the definition of a franchise under the Franchise Rule.
Health Access Inc.
re: Sale of vaccines by non-profit hospital to affiliated wellness center.
MedSouth, Inc.
re: proposal of MedSouth, Inc., a physician independent practice association located in Denver, Colorado, to integrate partially its member physicians' practices.
Opinion 02-1
Discusses whether the grant of multiple licenses to the same licensee qualifies for the Franchise Rule's single license exclusion.
