Chapter IV: Commercial agents.

The commercial agent shall communicate to his principal any information necessary for the performance of his contract.

The principal shall make available to the commercial agent any useful documentation on the products or services that are the subject of the agency contract. He shall provide the commercial agent with the information necessary for the performance of the contract. He shall notify him within a reasonable time, in particular if he anticipates that the volume of transactions will be significantly lower than that which the commercial agent could…

The principal shall provide the commercial agent with a statement of the commissions due, no later than the last day of the month following the quarter in which they are earned. This statement shall mention all the elements on the basis of which the amount of commission has been calculated. The commercial agent has the right to require his principal to provide him with all the information, in particular an…

In accordance with article L. 134-16, any clause or agreement contrary to the provisions of articles R. 134-1 and R. 134-2 or derogating, to the detriment of the commercial agent, from the provisions of article R. 134-3.

When applying for registration, a natural person married under a legal or contractual community regime must provide proof, in accordance with the model defined by order of the Minister of Justice, that his or her spouse has been informed of the consequences for joint property of debts contracted in the exercise of his or her profession. The commercial agent declares, where applicable, that he has made a declaration of unseizability…

Before commencing their activities, commercial agents must be registered in a special register held at the clerk’s office of the commercial court within whose jurisdiction they are domiciled. They shall produce a declaration to this effect, a receipt for which shall be issued to them. As an exception to the provisions of the previous paragraph, in the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle the special register for the registration of…

A commercial agent who has set up an assigned asset pursuant to Article L. 526-6 shall file in the special register, within six months of the end of the financial year, the accounting documents mentioned in l’article L. 526-14.

Any commercial agent who ceases to carry on his activity shall apply, via the single body mentioned in article R. 123-1 and within a period of two months, for his registration to be deleted, indicating the date of such cessation. The same obligation is incumbent on a commercial agent who no longer fulfils the conditions laid down in this chapter. .

If no application for removal is made within the prescribed period, the judge appointed to supervise the trade and companies register in the jurisdiction shall issue an order, either of his own motion or at the request of the public prosecutor or any person demonstrating an interest therein, requiring the interested party to have his registration removed. The interested party shall be notified of the judge’s order in accordance with…

The removal of a commercial agent from his membership of the social security body pursuant to the two first paragraphs of Article L. 613-4 of the Social Security Code entails his removal from the special register in which he is registered. The Registrar shall automatically remove the commercial agent from the special register referred to in the first paragraph as soon as he is informed by the single body referred…