French Commercial code
In forceNatural or legal persons who manage a business or a craft business in return for payment of a commission proportional to sales are referred to as "agent-managers" when the contract concluded with the principal, on whose behalf, or as part of a network, they manage the business, who remains the owner and bears the risks associated with its operation, sets them a mission, leaving them free, within the framework thus drawn up, to determine their working conditions, to hire staff and to substitute replacements in their activity at their own expense and under their full responsibility.
The assignment specifies, where applicable, the standards of management and operation of the business to be complied with and the terms and conditions of any controls that may be carried out by the principal. These commercial clauses do not alter the nature of the contract.
The manager-agent is registered in the Trade and Companies Register and, where applicable, in the National Register of Companies as a business in the trades and crafts sector. The contract is mentioned in these registers and is published in a medium authorised to receive legal notices.
The provisions of this chapter do not apply to professions governed by Chapter II of Title VIII of Book VII of the code du travail.
