Commercial agency: The Versailles Court of appeal rejects the economic violence and admits the validity of the clause of modification of the perimeter of intervention of the agent (SdLease / Econocom-Osiatis)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On the occasion of a merger, Econocom, the principal, proposed and obtained from its commercial agent, SD Lease, the conclusion of a new agency contract modifying the basis and rate of its commissions - the rate of 6% of turnover is substituted for 9% of the gross margin - and including a clause modifying the scope of the agent's intervention, a clause which, in view of the subject matter of the dispute, must be reproduced. An article 4-9 of the contract, concluded on July 1, 2013, thus provides that "4-9-1: The principal may, with six months' notice (notified by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt), modify the clients entering the agent's