A commercial agent is an agent who, in a self-employed capacity, without being bound by a contract for the hire of services, is responsible, on a permanent basis, for negotiating and, where appropriate, concluding contracts of sale, purchase, hire or provision of services, in the name and on behalf of producers, industrialists, traders or other commercial agents. He may be a natural person or a legal entity and is registered, on his declaration, in the special register of commercial agents.
Not covered by the provisions of this chapter are agents whose mission of representation is carried out in the context of economic activities which are the subject, with regard to this mission, of specific legislative provisions.