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Agency Agreements [Updated September 15, 2008]
Under EU law, commercial agency agreements benefit from a special regime with regards to the application of competition law rules. Although they may contain clauses that can produce anticompetitive effects, such as minimum price fixing, these type of agreements are generally allowed in so far as their overall positive effects trump their negative ones. However, not all type of clauses are allowed, and some clauses are considered illegal regardless of which guises they are presented under.
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