CELEX: 62018CA0828
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-828/18: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de commerce de Paris — France) — Trendsetteuse SARL v DCA SARL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Self-employed commercial agents — Directive 86/653/EEC — Concept of ‘commercial agent’ — Negotiation of the sale or purchase of goods on behalf of the principal — Intermediary lacking the power to change the conditions of sale and the prices of the goods that intermediary sells)

10.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 4 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de commerce de Paris — France) — Trendsetteuse SARL v DCA SARL
      (Case C-828/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Self-employed commercial agents - Directive 86/653/EEC - Concept of ‘commercial agent’ - Negotiation of the sale or purchase of goods on behalf of the principal - Intermediary lacking the power to change the conditions of sale and the prices of the goods that intermediary sells)
      (2020/C 262/06)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal de commerce de Paris
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Trendsetteuse SARL
      
         Defendant: DCA SARL
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 1(2) of Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents must be interpreted as meaning that a person does not need to have the power to change the prices of the goods which he or she sells on behalf of the principal in order to be classified as a commercial agent within the meaning of that provision.
      
         (1)  OJ C 82, 4.3.2019.