• 20/7/2010 - SWEDEN: New precedent from the Swedish Supreme Court regarding notice of termination in distribution contracts.
• 20/7/2010 - SPAIN: Modification of the Spanish Commercial Retail Act affecting distribution and franchising activities.
• 20/7/2010 - The IDI website features new franchising country experts and reports.
• 17/5/2010 - IDI ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON REGULATION 330/2010: Torino (Italy) 11-12 June, 2010.
• 17/5/2010 - New Commission Regulation 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 on vertical agreements and concerted practices.
• 17/5/2010 - SPAIN: New Regulation on Franchising.
• 17/5/2010 - U.S.A.: California and Montana Courts Invalidate Common Franchise Arbitration Provisions.
• 14/4/2010 - 2010 IDI ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Torino (Italy) 11-12 June, 2010.
• 14/4/2010 - U.S.A.: New Jersey Expands Coverage Of Its Franchise Practices Act.
• 14/4/2010 - CANADA: verbal distribution agreements are binding on both parties; courts cannot modify a freely negotiated notification period.
• 14/4/2010 - THE NETHERLANDS: Protection of selective-distribution systems by the Dutch Supreme Court.
• 15/3/2010 - BELGIUM: Decision of the Court of Appeal of Antwerp 13.11.2006.
• 15/3/2010 - TURKEY: Decision No° 2009/11416 of the 28 May 2009 by the 19th Civil Chamber of the Turkish Supreme Court.
• 15/3/2010 - Recent draft of the forthcoming Block Exemptions Regulation.
• 15/3/2010 - IDI/Ukrainian Bar Association Seminar in Kiev.
• 15/3/2010 - The IDI website features two new franchising country experts for China and Brazil.
• 15/2/2010 - THE NETHERLANDS: Resale price maintenance.
• 15/2/2010 - FRANCE: The EU Court of First Instance fined a French carmaker on the basis of Art. 81 of the EC Treaty.
• 15/2/2010 - UE: The 2007 revised text of the Lugano Convention has entered into force on January 1, 2010.
• 15/2/2010 - The IDI website features a new franchising country expert for Ukraine.
• 18/1/2010 - 2010 IDI CONFERENCE: Torino (Italy) next 11-12 June, 2010.
• 18/1/2010 - ITALY: The Court of Cassation has enacted an interesting judgment regarding distributorship contracts.
• 18/1/2010 - JAPAN: A new case law on franchising.
• 18/1/2010 - SPAIN: Agency Agreements – Deadline to ask for unpaid commissions.
• 18/1/2010 - The IDI website features a new agency and distribution country expert for IRAQ.
• 14/12/2009 - CANADA: Superior Court of Quebec, 22-01-2009, no. 200-17-010520-088.
• 14/12/2009 - BELGIUM: Commercial Court Liege, decision of 14 may 2009 (case n° A:07/2524-2620).
• 14/12/2009 - SPAIN: Three new interesting case law on franchising.
• 14/12/2009 - UE: EC Regulation n. 593/2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) will enter into force on 17 December 2009.
• 14/12/2009 - The IDI website features two new countries: MACEDONIA and JORDAN.
• 16/11/2009 - DENMARK: Danish Supreme Court, judgement of 9 June 2009 (Case No 51(2)/2007 Bodilsen vs. MBI France (published 17 October 2009).
• 16/11/2009 - COLOMBIA: New law on competition.
• 16/11/2009 - New amendment of Section 89 b of the German Commercial Code.
• 16/11/2009 - IDI WEBSITE: New Country Experts and Reports.
• 14/10/2009 - UK: A recent case - law on agency.
• 14/10/2009 - IDI: Observations prepared by IDI in view of the revision of the EC Regulation 2790/1999.
• 14/10/2009 - SPAIN: Franchising Agreement - Unilateral modification of the franchising agreement by the franchisor.
• 14/10/2009 - PORTUGAL: Franchising update.
• 16/9/2009 - UE: Revision of Regulation 2790/1999 by the EC Commission.
• 16/9/2009 - AUSTRIA: New judgement on goodwill indemnity to distributor.
• 16/9/2009 - BELGIUM: A new case law on franchising.
• 16/9/2009 - NEW CONTENTS OF THE IDI WEBSITE.
• 23/7/2009 - The European Court of Justice corrects German case law on the commercial agent's indemnity
• 23/7/2009 - IDI: Recommendation prepared by IDI in view of the revision of the EC Regulation 2790/1999.
• 23/7/2009 - SPAIN: Car distribution agreement. Termination respecting previous notice. Contractual clause excluding the clientele compensation.
• 23/7/2009 - IDI WEBSITE: new Country Experts and Reports.
• 17/6/2009 - URUGUAY: Distribution Agreement.
• 17/6/2009 - UKRAINE: Recent Case Law in the field of Franchising.
• 17/6/2009 - POLAND: A bonus for reaching the fixed level of sales is not subject to value added tax (VAT).
• 16/3/2009 - THE NETHERLANDS: Zwolle Lelystad District Court, Case N° 148006/KG ZA 08371 of 25/08/2008.
• 16/3/2009 - COLOMBIA: Effects of Colombia/U.S.A.’s FTA on commercial agency agreements.
• 16/3/2009 - U.S.A.: Court upholds discipline against attorney who failed to provide competent franchise law advice to a franchisor.
• 16/2/2009 - THE NETHERLANDS: New case law on exclusive distribution.
• 16/2/2009 - IDI Antitrust Report: revised version.
• 16/2/2009 - FRANCE: The French Competition Council position on the use of Internet in selective distribution.
• 16/2/2009 - SPAIN: Proposal for a draft on Commercial Distribution Contracts Act.
• 16/1/2009 - FRANCE: New case law on the meaning of Article L134-13 of the French Commercial Code.
• 16/1/2009 - SPAIN: Distribution agreements. Termination for non attainment of minimum targets.
• 16/1/2009 - NEW CONTENTS: The IDI website is constantly improving its services and contents with the addition of new important features.
• 15/12/2008 - SWITZERLAND: Developments in the Law of Exclusive Distribution.
• 15/12/2008 - SPAIN: Sub-distribution agreements - Unilateral Termination by the principal with short notice and no indemnities as agreed in the contract.
• 15/12/2008 - UK: A new judgment on post termination non compete obligation in a franchising agreement.
• 15/12/2008 - IDI: New country reports on franchising - Italy and UK.
• 17/11/2008 - UK: A recent interesting case-law on breach of contracts in a franchising agreement.
• 17/11/2008 - SPAIN: Distribution agreement – Unilateral termination of a non-written agreement by the principal with short notice given to the distributor.
• 17/11/2008 - BRAZIL: Supreme Court issues a new decision on distribution and jurisdiction.
• 15/10/2008 - ITALY: The current trend of the Italian Courts on calculation of the agents' goodwill indemnity.
• 15/10/2008 - NETHERLANDS: A new case law on termination of distributorship agreements.
• 15/10/2008 - TURKEY: Competition Board's Recent Decisions on Agency Matters.
• 16/9/2008 - LITHUANIA: New interesting case-laws on commercial agency.
• 16/9/2008 - JAPAN: Supreme Court interpretation of a franchising agreement.
• 16/9/2008 - SPAIN: a recent case law on unilateral termination of Franchise Agreements
• 15/7/2008 - SPAIN: Evidences in a procedure for price fixing in distribution relationship in the Sentence of the Audiencia Nacional of January 16, 2008.
• 15/7/2008 - GERMANY: Tax Neutrality for Advertising Cost Contributions.
• 15/7/2008 - SWITZERLAND: Federal Supreme Court Judgement 4A_293/2007 and 4A_295/2007 of 15 January 2008. Sole agency contract (resale contract), estimate of damages.
• 17/6/2008 - UK: : a new juNigel Fryer v Ian Firth Hardwaredjment on calculation of compensation.
• 17/6/2008 - SPAIN: Recent decisions on agency and distribution.
• 16/4/2008 - JAPAN: RECENT CASE LAW ON FRANCHISING
• 16/4/2008 - PORTUGAL: DISTRIBUTION - CLIENTELE INDEMNITY.
• 16/4/2008 - FRANCE: The use of Internet in a distribution contract.
• 17/3/2008 - 2008 IDI CONFERENCE: Torino (Italy) next 6-7 June, 2008.
• 17/3/2008 - FRANCE: The Paris Court of Appeals enforces clause setting a sales agent's termination indemnity at one year's commission.
• 17/3/2008 - DENMARK: New case-law on service agents under the Danish Agency Act.
• 18/2/2008 - SWEDEN: New precedent from the Swedish Supreme court regarding indemnity.
• 18/2/2008 - JUDGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE on the agent's right to commission:
• 18/2/2008 - UKRAINE: RECENT CASE LAW ON FRANCHISING.
• 15/1/2008 - UE: signature of the new Lugano Convention.
• 15/1/2008 - AUSTRIA: a new judgment of the Supreme Court on immediate termination of an agency agreement (Austrian Supreme Court 30 July 2007, 8Ob70/07p)
• 15/1/2008 - POLAND: Verdict of the Constitution Tribunal dated July 17, 2007 (case number P 16/06)
• 17/12/2007 - NEW FORUM SECTION IN THE IDI WEBSITE:
• 17/12/2007 - AUSTRIA: Claim for compensation and commission toward Austrian subsidiary company in case of insolvency of German parent company.
• 17/12/2007 - NORWEGIAN SUPREME COURT extend notice period of claims against the seller.
• 20/11/2007 - BRAZIL: New Court Decision on franchising.
• 20/11/2007 - FRANCE: The purchaser of a franchisee's buisness may not be held liable merely because of a termination of a distribution agreement.
• 20/11/2007 - URUGUAY: New Antitrust Law.
• 15/10/2007 - IDI/ECLA Cooperation Agreement
• 15/10/2007 - CHINA: NEW ANTI-MONOPOLY LAW
• 15/10/2007 - NEW ACT FOR THE PROMOTION AND DEFENCE OF THE COMPETITION IN ANDALUSIA (SPAIN)
• 18/9/2007 - FRANCE: Issues that may arise with the termination of an exclusive distribution agreement.
• 18/9/2007 - NEW SPANISH COMPETITION ACT
• 18/9/2007 - The European Community agreed on the final text of a new Lugano Convention.
• 7/8/2007 - UNITED KINGDOM: New judgement on the agent's compensation.
• 7/8/2007 - FRANCE: An interesting case-law on exclusive distribution agreements.
• 7/8/2007 - 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements.
• 7/8/2007 - IDI WEBSITE:
• 16/7/2007 - AUSTRIA: Obligation of the supplier to take back the spare parts when terminating the car-distribution contract.
• 16/7/2007 - SPAIN: Distribution contracts draft law.
• 16/7/2007 - UE-DENMARK: EC Regulation 44/2001 is now applicable also to Denmark.
• 17/5/2007 - ARGENTINA: Two further decisions of Argentinean Labour Courts on franchising.
• 17/5/2007 - GREECE: A new draft on franchising has been issued in Greece.
• 17/5/2007 - DENMARK: A recent case of infringement of unregistered EU design.
• 17/5/2007 - NEW CONTENTS: The IDI website is constantly improving its services and contents with the addition of new important features.
• 18/4/2007 - CHINA: The New Regulations on Franchise.
• 18/4/2007 - UK: An interesting recent new case on commercial agency. Crane v Sky In-Home Services.
• 18/4/2007 - Some considerations on the Glaxo case. A radical change in the approach to parallel imports?
• 18/4/2007 - SWITZERLAND: Some judgements of the Federal Supreme Court on commercial agency and distribution agreements.
• 19/3/2007 - THE NETHERLANDS: A national judgement regarding the motor vehicle sector.
• 19/3/2007 - EUROPEAN COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE: An important judgment partly annuls the Commission Decision in the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Case, on Article 81 of the EC Treaty.
• 19/3/2007 - THE IDI WEBSITE FEATURES A NEW COUNTRY: URUGUAY.
• 20/2/2007 - 2007 IDI CONFERENCE: Vienna (Austria), next 15-16 June, 2007.
• 20/2/2007 - BELGIUM: Comment on the judgment pronounced by the Supreme Court of Belgium on 16th November 2006.
• 20/2/2007 - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: New amendments to the Commercial Agency Law.
• 20/2/2007 - LEBANON: Supreme Court decision on the applicability of Decree-law No. 34/1967 to exclusive commercial agency contracts.
• 17/1/2007 - EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: A further judgment regarding the motor vehicle sector.
• 17/1/2007 - EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: Decision on the applicability of Art. 81 of the EC Treaty to exclusive fuel distribution agreements.
• 17/1/2007 - NEW CONTENTS ON THE IDI WEBSITE: Finnish contract translations and new national case-law.
• 15/12/2006 - VIETNAM: New provisions on commercial agency and franchising contracts.
• 15/12/2006 - LEBANON: The Court of First Instance of Beirut issued an important decision on commercial agency agreements.
• 15/12/2006 - FRANCE: From franchise to sales agent through a “commission-affiliation”: an interesting decision of the Paris Court of Appeal.
• 20/11/2006 - UE: The implementation of the block exemption Regulation no. 1400-02 in the motor vehicle context might justify the termination of car distribution contracts, with a short notice.
• 20/11/2006 - New contents on the IDI website.
• 20/11/2006 - New Ratifications to the 1980 Rome Convention and to the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
• 16/10/2006 - European Commission Decision on the fuel distribution system in Spain.
• 16/10/2006 - FRANCE: The franchisor should provide the potential franchisee with full precontractual information on the local market. Decision of the Court of Appeal Of Paris of June 23rd, 2006 (Cleret et al. v. Euromark International et al.).
• 16/10/2006 - New Contents in the IDI Website: Country report, translations of contracts and more materials in the relevant sections of the website.
• 19/9/2006 - MEXICO: The Legislation of the Franchising Agreement
• 19/9/2006 - ITALY: The Court of Appeal of Cagliari, in its judgement of 12 April 2006 rejects the agent’s claim for indemnity based on Article 1751 c.c. and enforces the regulations provided by the collective agreements.
• 19/9/2006 - New English Case-law on Agency Agreements.
• 14/7/2006 - SPAIN: Modifications on the Franchise Regulation and the Registry of Franchisors (Introduced by Royal Decree 419/2006, April 7th, 2006).
• 14/7/2006 - POLAND: new decision of the Supreme Court on goodwill indemnity.
• 19/6/2006 - Czech Republic, Greece and Lithuania: Three New Countries on the IDI Website
• 19/6/2006 - New Model Contracts on the IDI Website
• 19/5/2006 - TURKEY: The provisions of the Draft Commercial Code concerning Commercial Agents
• 19/5/2006 - UK: Recent decision of the High Court on Distribution
• 19/5/2006 - ARGENTINA: a resume of the situation of the Argentine commercial distribution system and labour laws.
• 19/4/2006 - THE NETHERLANDS: Decision of the EU Court of Justice on the preliminary ruling in the proceedings C-3/04 (Poseidon Chartering v. Marianne Zeeschip).
• 19/4/2006 - ITALY: The European Court declares that the calculation of the indemnity introduced by the collective agreements is contrary to the European directive.
• 19/4/2006 - NEW RATIFICATIONS to the 1980 Rome Convention:
• 16/3/2006 - BELGIUM: The new law of 19 December 2005 on pre-contractual information relating to commercial co-operation agreements.
• 16/3/2006 - UK: Recent decision of the English Court of Appeal on Commercial Agency.
• 16/3/2006 - FRANCE: Precontractual information is not necessary if the franchisee has experience to appreciate the economical profile of the contract.
• 21/2/2006 - THE IDI WEBSITE FEATURES A NEW COUNTRY: UKRAINE.
  New country report, materials and key information available from now.
• 15/2/2006 - BELGIUM: Supreme Court Decision on Arbitrability of Exclusive Distributorship Agreement.
• 15/2/2006 - FRANCE: Decision of the Supreme Court on the amount of the compensation due to the commercial agent after termination of the contract.
• 15/2/2006 - EC Council Regulation No. 44/2001: modification of its Annexes.
• 12/1/2006 - Accession of the 10 new EU Member States to the 1980 Rome Convention on the Law applicable to Contractual Obligations (Luxembourg, 14/04/2005).
• 12/1/2006 - AUSTRIAN DECISION: Single Directions Given to an Agent by his Principal do not constitute “Employment Contracts”.
• 12/1/2006 - AUSTRIAN DECISION: Notice Period According to EC-Regulation N. 1400/2002 on Vertical Restraints on Car Distribution.
• 14/12/2005 - Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters.
• 14/12/2005 - Decisions of two Lebanese Courts on the Arbitrability of Disputes arised from Commercial Agency Agreements.
• 14/12/2005 - New Italian Rules Concerning the Foreign Franchisors.
• 14/12/2005 - Recent Decision of the Brazilian Superior Court on Distribution.
• 15/11/2005 - Opinion of the Advocate General on the Italian System of Calculation of the Agent’s Indemnity.
• 8/11/2005 - Decision of the Polish Supreme Court on Distribution.
• 1/11/2005 - Judgement of the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal on the Qualification of the Commercial Agent as a Worker.
• 25/10/2005 - UK: Recent decision of the English High Court on commercial agency.
• 18/10/2005 - BRAZIL: Decision on the indemnity owed to the agent in case of unjustified termination of the agency agreement by the principal.
• 11/10/2005 - The New Hague Convention of 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements.
• 4/10/2005 - Principles of European Law on Commercial Agency, Franchise and Distribution Agreements.
• 27/9/2005 - CHINA: Regulatory provisions for expanding Distribution Business Scope of Foreign Invested Non-commercial Enterprises.
• 20/9/2005 - FRANCE: Important decision of the Supreme Court on selective distribution.
• 13/9/2005 - CHINA: New Measures on Franchising.
• 6/9/2005 - A new case on the EC 653/86 Directive before the Court of Justice.
• 26/7/2005 - New Law on Franchising in Italy. On May 6, 2004 the Italian parliament approved the first law on franchising contracts in Italy (Law No. 129 of 6 May, 2004).
• 19/7/2005 - The goodwill indemnity in some of the new EU member states.

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