Book One: Trade in General
Part Two: Business Assets, Trade Name, Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Commercial Data
Book Two: Commercial Obligations and Contracts
Part Two: Commercial Sale
Part Six: Commercial Agency
Book One: Trade in General
Part Two: Business Assets, Trade Name, Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Commercial Data
Chapter Two: Trademarks and Commercial Data: Article (68)
Trademarks and commercial data shall be regulated by specific laws to be enacted in this regard.
Book Two: Commercial Obligations and Contracts
Part Two: Commercial Sale
Article (109)
1. Where the item sold is a commodity protected by a registered trademark, it is permissible to agree that the buyer may not sell at a price less than a certain price.
2. The court may decide the non-compliance with this condition if it considers that the item sold is a necessary commodity.
3. The buyer's successors shall not be bound to comply with the above condition, except if they came to know or they could have known about it.
Part Six: Commercial Agency
Chapter Two: Certain Types of Commercial Agencies: 1- Contract Agency: Article (215)
1. A contract agency is a contract whereby an agent undertakes to carry out, continuously and in a specific area of activity, instigation and negotiation in order to conclude transactions for the benefit of the principal in return for a remuneration. The contracts agent's task may include the conclusion and implementation of such transactions in the name of the principal and for his account.
2. A contract agency shall be in writing and shall indicate in particular the scope of agency, remuneration of the agent, area of activity, contract term, in case of a fixed-term contract, and the trademark (if any) of the commodity subject of the agency.
Article (233)
1. A commission agent may not change trademarks affixed to the goods received by him from the principal or for the principal's account.
2. Where the commission agent has possession of a whole bunch of goods of the same kind which were dispatched to him by different principals, he shall distinctively label each batch of goods.
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