This title was first published in 2002: The Directive 86/653 has had considerable impact on commercial agencies operating in France and the United Kingdom. This impressive study provides an in-depth critical analysis of the Directive paying particular attention to the working of the French system on which many important aspects of the Directive are based. It also considers the rules regulating the French and English commercial agency relationship before and after the implementation of the Directive in order to observe the substantial evolution of the rules in this area.