ICC Model Contract on Commercial Agency - eBook

This model contract is for parties negotiating agency agreements abroad who face a major difficulty: the lack of uniform rules.

Includes the full text of the model in a user friendly and fully editable format

Incorporates the prevailing practice in international trade as well as the principles recognised by domestic laws on agency

Meets the needs of individuals and companies exporting, as well as lawyers

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eBook Summary

Description

Virtually every company engaged in international trade makes use of agents and therefore must face the problem of drafting an international agency agreement. In the absence of internationally agreed legislation on commercial agency, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) drafted the ICC Model Contract Commercial Agency to address, among others, questions of sales through the Internet, indemnity, arbitration and the principles of law generally applicable to agency contracts (“lex mercatoria”). Concise and practical, the model meets the needs of both individuals and exporting companies as well as lawyers.

This model contract is not based on specific national laws. Instead it incorporates the prevailing practice in international trade as well as the principles recognised by the domestic laws on agency.

Each ICC Model Contract includes a fully editable version in Microsoft Word, permitting you to easily adapt the contract to your specific case.

Table of contents

FOREWORD

  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION 

1.    A UNIFORM MODEL FORM FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE

2.    SCOPE OF APPLICATION

2.1. International agreements

2.2. Agent acting as reseller

2.3. Contracts with employed agents

2.4. Buying agents

2.5. “Service” agents

2.6. Consignment of the goods

2.7. Agency as primary activity

3.    THE APPLICABLE LAW

4.    ANTITRUST RULES AND AGENCY

5.    SALES THROUGH THE INTERNET

6.    PROVISIONS ON INDEMNITY

7.    RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES: ADR, ARBITRATION, NATIONAL COURTS

7.1. Arbitration

7.2. Jurisdiction of national courts

7.3. ADR/Mediation

8.    PRECAUTIONS FOR USE OF THE MODEL FORM 

9.    MODEL FORM OF INTERNATIONAL AGENCY CONTRACT

  • ANNEX I: PRODUCTS, TERRITORY AND CUSTOMERS
  • ANNEX II: PRODUCTS AND PRINCIPALS REPRESENTED BY THE AGENT
  • ANNEX III: ADVERTISING AND OTHER MARKETING ACTIVITIES
  • ANNEX IV: GUARANTEED MINIMUM TARGET
  • ANNEX V: COMMISSIONS
  • ANNEX VI: CHANGE OF CONTROL, OWNERSHIP AND/OR MANAGEMENT IN THE AGENT-COMPANY
  • ANNEX VII: ICC MODEL CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE 2006
  • APPENDIX 1: EEC DIRECTIVE 86/653
  • APPENDIX 2: ICC ANTI-CORRUPTION CLAUSE
  • APPENDIX 3: ICC PRINCIPLES TO FACILITATE COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATION
  • ICC’S INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS SERIES

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  • ICC AT A GLANCE

Details

  • Publishing date: 2015
  • Number of pages: 54
  • Language: English

Authors

Fabio Bortolotti (Italy) and by Professor Didier Ferrier (France).

The model benefited from the active participation of the following working group members: Horst Becker (Germany), Dragan Beljic (Serbia), Silvia Bortolotti (Italy), Madalena Caldeira (Portugal), José Maria Corrêa de Sampaio (Portugal), Andrej Friedl (Slovenia), Valle Garcia de Novales (Spain), Mariaelena Giorcelli (Italy), Bernhard Köck (Austria), Stephan Kranebitter (Austria), Galyah Natan-Epstein (Israel), Sven Petersen (Denmark), Christoph Martin Radtke (France), Olufunmilayo Ajike Roberts (Nigeria), Michael Svendsen (Denmark), Jaap van Till (Netherlands), Koen Vanheusden (Belgium), and Angelika Zoder (Austria) .

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