Agency agreement: The Paris Court of appeal requires the commercial agent to control his commercialization network (Cedel Pharma / Natural Nutrition)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The sales agent must control the behaviour of his own sales force. This is the main lesson that can be drawn from the judgment under comment. Company N, whose purpose is the marketing of dietary supplements, uses, under a commercial agency contract in 2006, the exclusive services of Company C; the latter relies on sales representatives and commercial sub-agents to carry out its mission. Article 4 of the said contract provided "that the employees attached to C in charge of the promotion and sale of Natural Nutrition products may under no circumstances promote products or specialties that could compete with it, C and its employees undertake to inform N of the