{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1986/653",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents (86/653/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The commission shall become due as soon as and to the extent that one of the following circumstances obtains:\n(a) the principal has executed the transaction; or\n(b) the principal should, according to his agreement with the third party, have executed the transaction; or\n(c) the third party has executed the transaction.\n2. The commission shall become due at the latest when the third party has executed his part of the transaction or should have done so if the principal had executed his part of the transaction, as he should have.\n3. The commission shall be paid not later than on the last day of the month following the quarter in which it became due.\n4. Agreements to derogate from paragraphs 2 and 3 to the detriment of the commercial agent shall not be permitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1986/653/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:33.153760+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}