Such a person or entity must be recorded on the register for commercial agents maintained at the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade. The agency contract must be submitted upon application for registration. Any amendments to the contract must be notified to the Egyptian consulate in the country of the principal. It is not required that the agent be exclusive. However, if the agent is a public sector company no other private sector agent may be appointed for the same line of products.
Egyptian law does require that termination be upon adequate notice.
Notice provisions are generally agreed upon and defined by the parties in the commercial agency agreement. Further, Egyptian law does contain the abuse of rights doctrine, under which a court can grant a commercial agent damages for its principal's abusive exercise of a right to terminate an agreement. As a member of the World Trade Organization and in compliance with the covenants included in the final treaty comprising the results of the Uruguay round for multilateral commercial negotiations and the lists of Egypt's promises in the field of trade commodities, which was signed in Morocco in 1994, a new law was introduced in May of 1998 regarding the protection of the national economy. This law, aimed at dealing with the consequences of damaging practices carried out in international commerce, has already lead to a series of decisions by the Ministry of Trade and Supply in which anti-dumping penalties were imposed and collected. 161 of 1998 grants the Ministry of Trade and Supply powers to protect the national economy from the damaging consequences of subsidies, dumping or unjustified increases in importation.