Principles of European Law on Commercial Agency, Franchise and Distribution Contracts (PEL CAFDC)
Principles of European Law Study Group on a European Civil Code
Commercial Agency, Franchise and Distribution Contracts (PEL CAFDC)
prepared by Martijn W. Hesselink Jacobien W. Rutgers Odavia Bueno Díaz Manola Scotton Muriel Veldman with advice from the Advisory Council approved by the Co-ordinating Group
Sellier. Stæmpfli European Law Publishers Publishers Ltd. Berne The Dutch Working Team Georgios Arnokouros LL M (Greek Law), Professor Maurits Barendrecht (Team Leader), Lic. Rui Miguel Prista Patrı´cio Casca˜o (Portuguese Law), Odavia Bueno Diaz LL M Leuven (Spanish Law), John Dickie (Team Manager Utrecht, English Law, until 2002), Giuseppe Donatello, Professor Martijn Hesselink (Team Leader), Dr. Viola Heutger (Team Manager Utrecht), Professor Ewoud Hondius (Team Leader), Dr. Christoph Jeloschek (Austrian Law), Roland Lohnert (until June 2002), Prof. Marco Loos (Team Manager Tilburg), Dr. Andrea Pinna (French Law), Dr. Jacobien Rutgers (Team Manager Amsterdam, since April 2001), Dott.ssa. Manola Scotton (Italian Law), Dr. Hanna Sivesand (Swedish Law), Mr. Muriel Veldman (Dutch Law), Mr. Hester Wattendorff (Team Manager Amsterdam, until July 2000), Aneta Wiewiorowska (Polish law)
External Reporters: Dr. Andre Jansen (M nster) (German law), Dr. Soili Nysten-Haarala, (Finnish reporter)
The Advisory Council on Commercial Agency, Franchise and Distribution Contracts Professor Johny Herre (Stockholm), Professor Je´roˆme Huet (Paris), Professor Ewan McKendrick (Oxford), Professor Peter Schlechtriem (Freiburg i.Br.), Professor Hugh Beale (London/Warwick), Professor Christina Ramberg (Stockholm)
The Co-ordinating Group Professor Guido Alpa (Genua/Rome), Professor Kaspars Balodis (Riga, since December 2004), Professor Christian v. Bar (Osnabr ck), Professor Maurits Barendrecht (Tilburg), Professor Hugh Beale (London), Professor Michael Joachim Bonell (Rome), Professor Mifsud G. Bonnici (Valetta, since December 2004), Professor Carlo Castronovo (Milan), Professor Eric Clive (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrich Drobnig (Hamburg), Professor Be´ne´dicte Fauvarque-Cosson (Paris), Professor Marcel Fontaine (Leuven, until December 2003), Professor Andreas Furrer (Luzern, since December 2003), Professor Jacques Ghestin (Paris), Professor Sir Roy Goode (Oxford, until December 2002), Professor Viggo Hagstrøm (Oslo, since June 2002), Professor Arthur Hartkamp (The Hague), Justitier det Professor Torgny Ha˚stad (Stockholm), Professor Johnny Herre (Stockholm), Professor Martijn Hesselink (Amsterdam), Professor Ewoud Hondius (Utrecht), Professor Giovanni Iudica (Milan, since June 2004), Professor Konstantinos Kerameus (Athens), Professor Ole Lando (Copenhagen), Professor Ka˚re Lilleholt (Bergen, since June 2003), Professor Brigitta Lurger (Graz), Professor Hector MacQueen (Edinburgh), Professor Denis Mazeaud (Paris, since June 2005), Professor Ewan McKendrick (Oxford), Professor Valentinas Mikelenas (Vilnius, since December 2004), Dr. Niamh Molony (Belfast, since December 2003), Professor Eoin O’Dell (Dublin), Professor Edgar du Perron (Amsterdam), Professor Johannes Rainer (Salzburg), Professor Jerzy Rajski (Warsaw), Professor Christina Ramberg (Gothenburg), Professor Philippe Re´my (Poitiers), Judge Professor Encarna Roca y Trias (Madrid/Barcelona), Professor Peter Schlechtriem (Freiburg i. Br.), Professor Martin Schmidt-Kessel (Osnabr ck, since December 2004), Professor Denis Philippe (Leuven, since June 2004), Professor Jorge Sinde Monteiro (Coimbra), Professor Lena Sisula-Tulokas (Helsinki), Professor Sophie Stijns (Leuven), Professor Matthias Storme (Leuven), Professor Jan Svidron (Trnava, since June 2005), Dr. Stephen Swann (Osnabr ck), Professor Lubos˘ Tichy´ (Prague, since June 2005), Professor Verica Trstenjak (Maribor), Professor Paul Varul (Tartu, since June 2003), Professor Lajos Ve´ka´s (Budapest), Professor Anna Veneziano (Rome)
Further Members of the Study Group’s Advisory Councils Professor John W. Blackie (Strathclyde, Tort Law), Professor Michael G. Bridge (London, Property Law and Securities), Professor Angel Carrasco (Toledo, Securities), Professor Pierre Crocq (Paris, Securities), Dr. Eugenie Dacoronia (Athens, Tort Law and Renting Contracts), Professor Marie Gore´ (Paris, Structure), Professor Helmut Grothe (Berlin, Renting Contracts), Professor Je´roˆme Huet (Paris, Sales, Services, Agency, Franchise and Distribution Contracts), Professor Jan Kleineman (Stockholm, Tort Law), Docent Dr. Irene Kull (Tartu, Renting Contracts), Professor Guillermo Palao Moreno (Valencia, Tort Law), Professor Antoni Vaquer Aloy (Lleida, Renting Contracts), Professor Alain Verbeke (Leuven, Renting Contracts), Professor Anders Victorin (Stockholm, Renting Contracts), Professor Sarah Worthington (London, Renting Contracts). Volume 2
To be cited as: PEL/Hesselink/Rutgers/Bueno D az/Scotton/Veldmann, CAFDC, Introduction I PEL/Hesselink/Rutgers/Bueno D az/Scotton/Veldmann, CAFDC, Chapter I, Article 1: 101, Comments, A PEL/Hesselink/Rutgers/Bueno D az/Scotton/Veldmann, CAFDC, Chapter I, Article 1: 101, Notes, 1
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