CELEX: 62017CN0452
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-452/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de commerce de Liège (Belgium) lodged on 27 July 2017 — Zako SPRL v Sanidel SA

16.10.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 347/11
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de commerce de Liège (Belgium) lodged on 27 July 2017 — Zako SPRL v Sanidel SA
   (Case C-452/17)
   (2017/C 347/13)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal de commerce de Liège
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Zako SPRL
   
      Defendant: Sanidel SA
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Must 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 (1) be interpreted as requiring the commercial agent to seek and visit customers or suppliers outside of the business premises of the principal?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Must Article 1(2) of Directive 86/653/EEC be interpreted as requiring the commercial agent to carry out no tasks other than those relating to the negotiation of the sale or purchase of goods on behalf of the principal or to the negotiation and conclusion of such transactions on behalf of and in the name of the principal?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               If the second question is answered in the negative, must Article 1(2) of Directive 86/653/EEC be interpreted as requiring the commercial agent to carry out tasks other than those relating to the negotiation of the sale or purchase of goods on behalf of the principal, or to the negotiation and conclusion of such transactions on behalf of and in the name of the principal, only secondarily?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 1986 L 382, p. 17.