{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A commercial agent shall be entitled to commission on commercial transactions concluded after the agency contract has terminated:\n(a) if the transaction is mainly attributable to the commercial agent's efforts during the period covered by the agency contract and if the transaction was entered into within a reasonable period after that contract terminated; or\n(b) if, in accordance with the conditions mentioned in Article 7, the order of the third party reached the principal or the commercial agent before the agency contract terminated.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}