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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7841

15 November 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) court of justice
Commercial agents are protected by Community provisions in case of breach of contract

Luxembourg, 14/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - In the Ingmar ruling, the European Court of Justice declared that commercial agents had the right to an indemnity or compensation in the event of a breach of their contracts with companies they represented in the Community, irrespective of the law by which the two parties intended the contract to be governed. In a press release, the Court explains that "Community law is designed to protect commercial agents, in particular after termination of the...

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