# 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), Article 7

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. A commercial agent shall be entitled to commission on commercial transactions concluded during the period covered by the agency contract:
(a) where the transaction has been concluded as a result of his action; or
(b) where the transaction is concluded with a third party whom he has previously acquired as a customer for transactions of the same kind.
2. A commercial agent shall also be entitled to commission on transactions concluded during the period covered by the agency contract:
either where he is entrusted with a specific geographical area or group of customers,
or where he has an exclusive right to a specific geographical area or group of customers,
and where the transaction has been entered into with a customer belonging to that area or group.
Member States shall include in their legislation one of the possibilities referred to in the above two indents.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1986/653/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653/article-7
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