Extinction of the right to commission: The Court of Justice of the European Union specifies conditions to apply Article 11 of the directive 86/653/CEE on self-employed commercial agents regarding the extinction of its right to commission (ERGO Poist’ovna a.s. c/ Alzbeta Barlikova)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The commercial agency system, laid down in Articles L. 134-1 et seq. of the EC Treaty, transposes the provisions of Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents. Chapter III of the Directive, which deals with the remuneration of commercial agents, sets out the rules applicable where the commercial agent is remunerated in the form of commissions, understood as "any element of remuneration which varies with the number or value of cases". In this respect, it lays down in particular the conditions under which the agent's commission is earned (Article 10) and the