Franchise: The French Civil Supreme Court considers that the obligation of contractual accountability of a central contracting agency does not give way to business secrecy (Slad / Prodirest)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. A company (hereinafter the "Affiliate") has entered into an affiliation agreement with a central purchasing office (hereinafter the "Office"), expressly mandating it to negotiate on its behalf the terms and conditions of purchases from suppliers of food products, to communicate these terms and conditions to it and to allow it to benefit from the advantages obtained from the suppliers. Considering that not all of the deferred rebates paid by the suppliers to the Central had been paid to it in full, it asked it to account for the sums obtained on its behalf from the suppliers, and to do so, required the communication of framework contracts concluded with the