# 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 8

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

A commercial agent shall be entitled to commission on commercial transactions concluded after the agency contract has terminated:
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1986/653/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-653/article-8
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