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Commercial agent: The French Supreme Court considers that the power of negotiation does not imply modifying the contractual conditions and especially the prices (Nicolas / Verdier)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Powers of the commercial agent: still... and finally ?* The power to negotiate, which is essential to the qualification of commercial agent, is once again at the heart of two recent decisions, one by the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation, the other by the Paris Court of Appeal, jurisdictions that are firmly attached - until the intervention of the Court of Justice (CJEU, 9th ch., 4 June 2020, No. C-828/18, Lettre distrib. 06/2020 and , Rev. conc., No. 3-2020, p. 107, obs. N. Ferrier) - to the restrictive conception of this power. The solutions adopted augur - finally - for an unreserved rallying to the extensive conception of the notion of

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Stéphane Brena, Commercial agent: The French Supreme Court considers that the power of negotiation does not imply modifying the contractual conditions and especially the prices (Nicolas / Verdier), 20 May 2021, Concurrences N° 3-2021, Art. N° 101727, www.concurrences.com

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