Commercial agents : The Advocate General Kokott analyzes agreements between oil companies and operators of service stations in the light of the distinction between true and false commercial agents (Compañía Española de Petróleos)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The conclusions presented today, 13 July 2006, by Advocate General Juliane Kokott in Case C-217/05, following a request for a preliminary ruling by the Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal Supremo (Spain) to the Court of Justice of the European Communities for a preliminary ruling in the case of the question of whether and under what conditions an oil company may set prices at the service stations it supplies for the sale of fuels to the final consumer. In the present case the Spanish authorities of the competition had closed the