Agents in Germany for companies from outside of the European Union (EU)
Companies outside the EU will have to be carefully prepared for the market entrance into the EU with their commercial agreements and especially concerning the agency agreement with their German agents in order to avoid surprises during or after the contractual period.
The legal background for commercial agents within Germany and the European Union is different to what they are used in their legal systems.
Latest decisions of the European Courts will make it difficult to exclude the compensation indemnity claims of European agents on a contractual basis.