CELEX: 62007CA0019
Language: en
Date: 2008-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-19/07: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 January 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France)) — Paul Chevassus-Marche v Groupe Danone, Société Kro beer brands SA (BKSA), Société Evian eaux minérales d'Evian SA (SAEME) (Approximation of laws — Directive 86/653/EEC — Self-employed commercial agents — Right of an agent entrusted with a specific geographical area to a commission — Transactions concluded without any action on the part of the principal)

8.3.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 64/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 January 2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France)) — Paul Chevassus-Marche v Groupe Danone, Société Kro beer brands SA (BKSA), Société Evian eaux minérales d'Evian SA (SAEME)
   (Case C-19/07) (1)
   
   (Approximation of laws - Directive 86/653/EEC - Self-employed commercial agents - Right of an agent entrusted with a specific geographical area to a commission - Transactions concluded without any action on the part of the principal)
   (2008/C 64/16)
   Language of the case: French
   Referring court
   Cour de cassation
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Paul Chevassus-Marche
   
      Defendants: Groupe Danone, Société Kro beer brands SA (BKSA), Société Evian eaux minérales d'Evian SA (SAEME)
   Re:
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Cour de cassation — Interpretation of Article 7(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 (OJ 1986 L 382, p. 17) — Termination of the agency contract — Commission owed to a commercial agent entrusted with a specific geographical area or group of persons — Whether there is a right to that commission in the absence of any control, direct or indirect, by the principal over transactions between a third party and a customer belonging to the geographical area entrusted to the agent
   Operative part of the judgment
   The first indent of Article 7(2) 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 must be interpreted as meaning that a commercial agent entrusted with a specific geographical area does not have the right to a commission for transactions concluded by customers belonging to that area without any action, direct or indirect, on the part of the principal.
   
      (1)  OJ C 69, 24.3.2007.