All contracts concluded between, on the one hand, a natural person or a legal entity governed by private law that groups together traders, other than those mentioned in Chapters V and VI of Title II of Book I of this Code, or providing the services mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 330-3 and, on the other hand, any person operating a retail shop on his own behalf or on behalf of a third party, the common purpose of which is the operation of this shop and which contains clauses likely to limit the freedom of this operator to carry out his commercial activity, provide for a common deadline.
The termination of one of these contracts is equivalent to the termination of all the contracts mentioned in the first paragraph of this article.
This article shall not apply to a lease agreement the term of which is governed by article L. 145-4, contracts of association and civil, commercial or cooperative partnership contracts.