Significant imbalance: The Paris Court of Appeal establishes the conditions under which the single convention may be modified (Minister of Economy / Système U)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Is it possible to renegotiate during the year the single agreement concluded pursuant to Article L. 441-7 C. com, and if so, under what conditions? The answer given by the Paris Court of Appeal in this decision handed down on 16 May 2018 is important (AJ Contrat 2018, p. 385, obs. L.-M. Augagneur; Rev. Lamy conc. 2018, no. 74, note J.-M. Vertut). Until now, the issue had not been clearly decided, at least by the courts (on the status of the issue, see F. Buy, M. Lamoureux and J.-C. Roda, Droit de la distribution, LGDJ, 2017, No. 337). One had to be satisfied with an opinion of the Commission d'examen des pratiques commerciales which had considered that the